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10964 President Clinton Visits Palisades
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PALISADES NEWSLETTER JUNE 1996 NUMBER 152
For three days in late March Palisades was the site of
the second National Education Summit at IBMs
Palisades Executive Conference Center In addition to
41 state governors 49 corporate leaders and 30 well-
known education experts President Clinton made a brief
appearance on March 28 to present a speech on educational
policy Local participation was quite limited even Governor
Pataki did not attend owing to a sudden death in his family
The only students from Rockland county invited to the conshy
ference were two ninth-graders from North Rockland High
School who demonstrated a computerized earth sciences proshy
ject by working on-line with weather experts in Urbana 111
Owing to our lack of official press credentials 10964 on-
site coverage was limited to a gracious tour of the empty
meeting room on the day before the conference began
conducted by the centers Program Manager
Elona Collins In addition we did some skimming A
of the gigantic related Internet web page j
(httpvAvww summit96ibmcom) had a glimpse of
two identical black limousines whisking the President
around the corner from 9W into the IBM driveway and
watched the Presidents speech on C-Span
Little evidence of the logistically complex event
was to be seen outside of the conference centermdashno secret
service agents were ever observed patrolling the woods
behind the center to the great disappointment of local chilshy
dren and 9W was closed for only 5 - 10 minutes during
President Clintons drive from the jogging oval at Tallman Park
where his fleet of 5 helicopters had to land to IBM
Fortunately for the nation as a whole the Bergen County
Mosquito Abatement Program did not send back their steam
Elizabeth and Bree Bauman and
Alexander and Luc Lahre wait anxiously for a glimpse
of the President next to demonstrators from the Highland Falls NY school district
shovel to clear more mud out of Sparkill Creek and possibly
scrape a few holes in the Tenneco pipeline (which passes 100
yds from the conference center) during the event
This meeting was a follow-up to the first educational sum-
mit held in 1989 in Charlottesville VA Like the first meeting
this one sought to emphasize the need for more uniformity of
standards better school accountability and also added more
emphasis to the need for technology in education In the con-
President Clinton Visits Palisades (continued from page 1)
ferences opening speech IBM President Lou Gerstner noted
that Its time to stop making excuses Its time to set stanshy
dards and achieve them This goal appears brave if not parshy
ticularly practical in todays political climate since efforts to
develop national standards since 1989
have met with fierce political opposishy
tion mainly from those who oppose
any increase in Federal involvement in
the education sector
President Clintons speech called
for six broad goals to be met end
automatic promotion from grade to
grade demand more from teachers
demand more from schools make
schools safer and drug-free improve
educational technology and reinvent
the budget process This last item
challenged states to cut regulation
and overhead and to spend more on
the classroom rather than administration
The budgetary angle would seem to be key
Unfortunately Mr Pataki was not around to answer questions
from reporters about the ways that slashing state education
spending will help increase educational quality in New York
IBMs press office was prepared for an onslaught of 700
reporters during the three days (nearly equivalent to the
entire population of Palisades) But with all the flurry did the
summit really get noticed across the country The New York
Fortunately for the nation as a whole the Bergen County Mosquito Abatement Program did not choose this moment to send back their steam shovel to clear more mud out of the Sparkill Creek and possibly scrape a few holes in the Tenneco pipeline (which passshyes 100 yds from the conference center) during the event
Times carried only one short article on page B9 during the
whole event although we were pleased to note that the
Rockland Journal News provided excellent coverage
We also have no way of knowing whether the governors
made any real progress on educational
issues during the conference Did they
just trade some feel-good cliches
about how important public schools are
to the future of this country before movshy
ing on to their luncheon and animated
discussion about which of their number
would be picked to run on the ticket with
Bob Dole Were he still alive a cynical
reporter like Ambrose Bierce could be
excused for musing rather wickedly on
what percentage of the notables in attenshy
dance have in fact sent all their own chilshy
dren to private schools but at 10964 we
are pointedly not cynical and wish all the
participants well in their efforts to do something positive
about public education in this country
However the outcome was entirely unambiguous for
local IBM employees who worked so hard to organize the
event It went phenomenally well exclaimed Ms Collins sevshy
eral weeks later with only a small tinge of relief in her voice
as she reminisced about the extraordinary visit from so many
distinguished guests
Greta S Nettleton
THE LATEST IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Though 10964 reporters had only a brief tour of the sumshymit it was enough to determine that the display of educashytional firepower set up for the nations governors and the President presented the very best of what is now available to educate American children Balconies were a blizzard of cables and electronic equipment as the most exciting teaching organizations in America displayed the full range of their capabilities
Two rooms were of particular interest One held about 30 CD-ROM displays including The Voyager Companys With Open Eyes IBMs Through the WoodsAt the Seashore Davidsons Multimedia Workshop Sunbursts A to Zap and Tom Snyders Great Ocean Resolve In the second room a palpable hum of activity swirled around the conferences Web Site displays
One only hopes that mir nilinns Irarfeis managed time away from pontificating eating and politicking to-sepound--i one of the best demonstrations of educational technology -weve ever seen Sadly not only did the President have no apparent inclination to make history by lunching at George Washingtons table (volunteers stood by ready to whisk it from the library to the summit) he spent so little time at the site that his ability to appreciate the multi-million dolshylar setup must have been practically nil
A 10964 reporter suggested hopefully to the overshyworked IBM staff that they keep the display open an extra day to allow area teachers to visit Alas scheduling conshyflicts called for a swift breakdown of the glorious show
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SOUTH copyRAWGETOWINI SCHOOL MIWS ELECTION RESULTS As a result of the election held on May 8 the budget passed representing a 36 percent increase over last years school budget The election also reseated School Board incumshybents Nancy Russell and Barbara Scheulen for another term
SOUTH ORANGETOWN SCHOOLS RATED HIGHLY The South Orangetown Central School District was selected by School Match as a 1996 Fifth Annual Award-Winning School System The organization a nationwide sershyvice that helps parents employed by corporashytions to find good schooling for their chilshydren uses over 33000 parent questionnaires to identify what parents look for in selecting a school system for their children Only 10 percent of the nations more than 15000 school systems are designated with this honor
SCHOOL BUS PASSING Although the school year is drawing to a close drivers must pay attention to the presshyence of stopped school buses on our roads It is against the law to pass a stopped bus on either side Yet on many of the major roads
in Palisades and South Orangetown people continue to drive past buses many of which have their red lights flashing and stop signs extended Please take notice of this potentially very dangerous situation before we have a local tragedy and please drive safely
SCIENCE AND MATH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM FOR GRADES 7-1 2 The Marie Curie Institute at St Thomas Aquinas College runs a science and math enrichment program for 7th through 12th graders on 10 Saturdays during the fall Students from both public and private schools are welcome Drawing on resources made available by Lamont IBM and Lederle Labs the program ties intershyested students particularly girls to teachshying mentors Although funding from Albany is somewhat uncertain Sister Teresa OConnor assures us that the proshygram is going forward interested stushydents who have not yet applied to this proshygram through their teachers or guidance counselors should contact Sister OConnor at 398-4162 for more information
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S U M M E R P R O G R A M S This summer the South Orangetown Central School District is sponsoring several camps and programs
Cosmos Soccer Camp will have two sessions this summer held at the South Orangetown Middle School Session I will run from July 15 through July 19 Session II from July 22 to July 26 Cost per session is $185 For more information please call 365-1624
Summerstage 96 a series of creative theater and television workshyshops offers six programs all located at Tappan Zee High School For more information about any of these programs please call 914-426-1858
Summerstage Kindergarten for enteringkindergarten students Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 am to 1 pm Early registration fee $200 regular registration fee $240
Summerstage Junior for students entering first grade Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 Five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A presentashytion performance will be held on Wednesday July 31 Early registrashytion $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Players for students entering grades 2 through 5 Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A student performance will be held on Thursday August 1 at 7 pm Early registration $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Troupers for students entering grades 6 through 12 Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A student performance will be held on Thursday August 1 at 7 pm and on Friday August 2 at 7 pm Early registration $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Showstoppers for students entering grades 8 to 12 Session I from Monday July 1 to Friday July 26 Session II from Monday August 5 to Friday August 30 five days a week from 630 pm to 930 pm Session I performance will be held on Friday July 26 at 7 pm Session II performance will be on Friday August 30 at 7 pm Early registration $400 regular registration $440
August TV Live for students entering grades 2 to 12 Monday August 5 to Friday August 30 five days a week Early registration $450 regular registration $490
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LIBRARY NEWS
The Palisades Free Library will be holding
its formal reopening and dedication ceremony on Saturday June 15 at 3 pm The program will include our guest speaker noted childrens author Betty Miles and will culminate with the dedication of the childrens room Refreshments will be served
The Library would like to thank the following people for their generous
donations of time and resources to the Plant Sale Alpine Nursery Margaret Anderson Bonnie Chapin Jonathan and Linda Ewig Marika Hahn Jacqueline Martin the Palisades Presbyterian Church Frances-Pellegrini Nina Prusinowski Lynne Aubrey Seidler Caroline Tapley Mary Tiegreen and Cellen Wolk
N E W B O O K S Adult Non-Fiction Brombert Edouard Manet Rebel
in a Frock Coat Eadie The Awakened Heart Goldhagen Hitlers Willing Executioners Heaney Redress of Poetry Levin Edward Hopper
An Intimate Biography Ozment Burghermeisters Daughter Sweetman Paul Gauguin A Life Trillin Messages From My Father Vanderbilt Mothers Story Viscott Emotional Resilience Wharton Houseboat on the Seine Woodward The Race
Adult Fiction Darnton Neanderthal Mayle Anything Considered Meade Snow Wolf Moore The Statement Palmer Critical Judgement Plain Accordion Crimes Roth From Bondage Weldon Worst Fears
The Library subscribes to 49 periodishycals and 4 newspapers Rockland Journal News New York Times Wall Street Journal and New York Review of Books
C H I L D R E N S P R O G R A M S
The Palisades Free Library looks forshyward to welcoming its younger patrons in the beautiful new childrens room Story time for children ages 3 to Kindergarten will be held on Wednesdays from 130 to 2 pm Children may look forward to stories with books flannel board and puppets as well as songs and fingerplays Please register at the library to let us know if your child will take part
After-school programs for eleshymentary school children will resume in the fall The Summer Reading Program will begin on June 26 We look forward to having all children participate whether they are reading by themshyselves or are still being read to FUN FOR ALL
LIBRARY HOURS Mon-Wed Thurs
Fri Sat Sun
3 pm- 9 pm 10 am - noon and 3 pm - 9 pm 3 pm - 5 pm 11 am-5 pm 1pm- 5 pm (closed in summer)
Palisades Presbyterian CKurcK News ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
Saturday June 2 2 3 pm to 7 pm
O n tke manse lawn Washington Spring Rd opposite tke ckurck
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Sunday services bullwill be at 10 am
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Simon Gerard is one of
Palisades self-taught
Renaissance men Art music
history food and education
are all subjects he has masshy
tered Simons most recent
professional engagement for his
recorder music was at The Awards
Luncheon of the English Speaking
Union in Manhattan Simons event parshy
ties are eagerly looked forward to as
much for conviviality as for the elegant
displays of his cooking skills Indeed
his professional catering services are
in demand from the Hamptons to
Palisades Parents take note he also
designs fantastical birthday parties
with themes such as a pirate ship or an
English castle Simon is a skilled carshy
penter an ability he makes use of for
building cabinets and shelving to house
his and others book collections as
well as for creating his glorious set
designs Currently Simon is working as
a set designer for the Actors Company
in Nyack He also has a detailed knowlshy
edge and appreciation of American and
European silver and of Oriental Rugs
Simon grew up in Palisades
attended local schoolsthen commuted
to Manhattan to attend Robert Louis
Stevenson High School He came back
to Palisades to graduate from his sister
Annies school Skunk Hollow This
school was an incredible educational
adventure where among other things
the students hired their own teachers
(It deserves an article of its own)
Instead of going to college I read the
Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to
cover I took notes on all that interestshy
ed me and followed up on those subshy
jects My education has never stopped
1 am always researching and reading
Indeed Simon has a fine library He is
a book collector specializing in history
art history and especially biography An
interest in history runs in the family
Simons great-grandfather was a
A R T I
medieval historian at Princeton and
Simon inherited part of that library
Simon is also a painter He studshy
ied with Lee Savage who is known both
for his realistic acrylics and for his
career as a teacher at important art
schools in Manhattan Both Simon and
Lee have been strongly influenced by
art history I went over and painted bull
with him in his studio for several
Instead of going to college I read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover I took notes on all that interested me and followed up on those subjects
years says Simon He advised me not
to go the academic route Do not go to
art school he said find your way intushy
itively and just paint So that is what I
did My painting follows the classic
Western painting tradition I consider
myself to be in the direct line from the
Greeks through the Renaissance to
today You can learn much from the Old
Masters What they taught is still releshy
vant to this day
Over the past several years Simon
has shown his paintings throughout the
New York area Last summer he particshy
ipated in the Matterhorns benefit This
fall some of his paintings will be shown
at a gallery in Soho
Simon also loves to teach Over
the years he has acquired a devoted
following for his popular after-school
art classes Simon introduces his
young students to a variety of media
including clay acrylics watercolor and
paper mache I like to use quality
material including special brushes I
think it is important for children to use
good materials so they develop an
appreciation for quality I dont want
children to be discouraged from art
because their materials are poor I also
feel children benefit from a nice dose
of art history My students range in age
from 5 to 131 have taught adults but
for now I am focusing on children My
summer art classes are more relaxed
than the winter classes
Simons art classes are taught in
his studio on Woods Road If anyone
has a budding Picasso living under
their roof they should give Simon a
call at 365-6312
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PALISADES IS PRETTY ORDINARY
Some of us think that Palisades is pretty special and it is in many ways But they arent the ways that are measured by the Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics which is based on the latest available data (1990) from the Census Bureau and other governmental agencies According to this source 996 people live in Palisades in 337 households and relative to other communishyties in Rockland County Palisades is disshytinctive in the following ways 1 ELDERLY RESIDENTS We are one of the
three towns with the highest percentshyage of residents 85 years of age or older (20) This is not surprising since 130 people live at the Palisades Gardens convalescent home
2 HOUSING RENTS The highest percentshyage of monthly rentals over $750 (63) and the highest median monthly rental ($1000)
3 GROWTH IN THE 1 9 6 0 S mdash The highest percentage of housing units built from 1960-69 (412)
There may be other more obscure ways in which Palisades is distinctive But it is not distinctive in many of the ways that some believe Palisades is 1 NOT THE WEALTHIESTmdashaverage houseshy
hold income is higher in New City ($73436) Orangeburg ($73063) and Blauvelt ($72578) than in Palisades ($72315) Per capita income is higher in West Nyack ($28191) and New City ($26267) than in Palisades ($23985) The percentage of households with incomes over $150000 is greater in West Nyack (135) New City (97) Blauvelt (71) Orangeburg (71) Monsey (57) and Tappan (49) than in Palisades (48)
2 NOT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE bull bull (except for rentals above) mdash the
median value of owner-occupied housshying is higher in Pomona ($245747) New City ($245474) Piermont ($240873) West Nyack ($237959) and Monsey (233182) than in Palisades ($231534)
3 NOT THE BEST EDUCATED mdash theper- centage of people with graduate or
professional degrees is higher in West Nyack (214) New City (210) Piermont (184) Suffern (180) Nyack (179) and Sparkill (172) than in Palisades (171)
4 NOT THE MOST PROFESSIONALmdashthe percentage of people with managerial or professional occupations is higher in New City (462) Monsey (427) West Nyack (426) Suffern (421) and Sparkill (421) than in Palisades (420)
Submitted by Jim Uleman who lives in Pearl River (also an average sort of place)
[Editors Note] All incomes given are foreshycast from 1980 census income tabulations and reported in 1989 dollars Other sources show different data on Palisades population the library reports that it serves 1294 children and adults the 1990 Census states that 1459 people live here (but includes Sparkill and Rockland Psychiatric) and the county Board of Elections lists 768 voters over the age of 18 Oh how uncertain is the nature of truth
THE OLD COUNTRY STORE
Dear 10964 I enjoyed Jocelyn DeCrescenzos reminisshycence of the Old Country Store My husshyband and I have lived in it since 1983 Although she felt that the expensive paint doesnt invite strangers and that the steps no longer lure the passer-by in fact there have been numerous visitors mdash strangers knocking at our door to ask if were open When we tell them its no longer a store they ask if they couldnt please just bring in their daughter or grandchild to give them a glimpse of their own childhood The marble-topped counter is still here as are the pot-bellied stove and all of those dim lights
The store is presently my husbands office mdash he produces a small magazine here so the candies and treasures are only memories however one passer-by hapshypened to share my passion for marble colshylecting the small colored balls mdash not MARshyBLE and we sat down and he examined my whole collection For Jocelyn and her daughtermdashI still have my Lucy dolls that I
purchased and cherished when 1 grew up in Rockland County Please do stop and visit sometimemdashwed be happy to share the memories with anyone who would like a look at The Old Country Store
Pat Lindgren Zipparo
PROTECTING PALISADES
Dear Editor For the edification of your readers I would like to tell you a little about the history of the fire department the John Paulding Engine Company which protects the lives and homes of our community
The fire company is named for the American militiaman and patriot John Paulding one of the astute captors of Major John Andre during the American Revolution Since its founding in 1901 the John Paulding Engine Company has provided continual sershyvice to the community
The members of the fire department are all volunteers trained in fighting fires rescue extraction of injured parties from vehicular accidents and all of the other skills needed by the modern-day firefighter
The fire company is governed by its own Board of Directors while the operational aspects are directed by the Fire Chief and his staff of officers The equipment used in this district is of the latest design specifishycally suited for the area covered It is kept in peak operational condition by the memshybers of the company
Currently the members of the Board are William Sullivan Broad Avenue Palisades
Chairman Thomas Carroll Home Tooke Road
Palisades Commissioner Robert Daly Sparkill Commissioner John Kopac Sparkill Commissioner Michael Yannazzone Sparkill Commissioner Dennis Leote Sparkill Treasurer
The Sparkill-Palisades Fire District enjoys the lowest fire tax rate in Orangetown while maintaining a first class volunteer fire department
Sincerely Thomas Carroll
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0trade^ The PIERMONT MARSH is a beautiful natural resource that is a great place to go exploring in the summer If you hike down the gas pipeline to the edge of the river (start from the Tallman Park entrance next to the Oasis snack bar) you can see two little islands with birch trees on them in the reeds that can be reached on foot at low tide If you want to explore by water you can rent a canoe from Bill and Kathy Herguths PARADISE BOATS in Piermont next door to the Kane playground on Sparkill Creek They are always open on
weekends but call ahead at 359-0073 during the week Year-round edushycational PUBLIC FIELD PROGRAMS in the marsh are offered by the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (758-5193) based in Annandale
The William 0 Schaefer Elementary School in Tappan is beginning a subshystantial recycling program which will involve items used at the school such as cans paper Styrofoam lunch trays and also donation of surplus food from the cafeterias to the hungry Special thanks to MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN and her son JOSH DRACO who spearheaded this effort
Welcome to new Palisades residents LESLEY VOGEL her husband SKIP PANETTIERE daughter HAYDEN age 6 and son JANSEN 1 Leslie is an acting coach and is very busy managing her childrens acting careers Skip is a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and
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contracted to the daytime soap One Life to Live and the prime time series It Aint Easy In her spare time she attends TZE Her little brother Jansen models for Wilhelmina
when he is not destroying the house
ANN BROOKE will be offering courses again in the fall on Putting Your Garden to Bed For informashytion call her at 358-7333
ANNIE GERARD will offer seminars this summer on Windows Tricks and Tips for the Computer Please call 359-3261 to sign up
MILBRY POLKS curriculum enrichshyment project Explorations An Educational Adventure will be feashytured on CBS Sunday Morning in June The project highlights the accomplishshyments of women explorers and feashytures material on the man-eating tigers of the Sunderbans swamps in Bangladesh
The Hudson House restaurant in Nyack is showing an exhibition of watercolors by Palisades artist ROBERT ADZEMA through the end of June
JANE HEROLD is back in business after having recovered from her broken arm I am throwing pots and have lit the
wood kiln Call her at 359-5421 to see her latest work
The PALISADES AIKIDO CLUB is offering a benefit seminar August 17 and 18 with Mary Heiny Sensei Mary is the highest ranked woman in Aikido in North America Proceeds from the seminar benefit Taklung Kogyu Manuscript Preservation Project in Tibet For more information call FRED LITTLE at 359-3261
Golf Writer HUBERT PEDROLI amp graphic designer MARY TIEGREEN have collaborated on a new book
A Passion for the Game of Golf to be published in June by Andrews and McMeel In addition Mary worked with author Jana Kolpen on an enchanting book The Secrets of Pistoulet published in May
Beauty consultant TRACY GARRISON has a new home service No time to pick up your cosmetic products She will pick them up (Arden Clinique Lancome etc) and bring them to Palisades for you Call her at 359-5812
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JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
CAPTION ABOUT DOSSIE
AND HER HELPER
DOSSIE NEEDS YOUR HELP HER HELPER N A N r
RECENTLY BROKE HER ARM AND DOSSIE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE MAINTEshyNANCE OF THE GARDEN IF ANYONE COULD CONshyTRIBUTE SOME TIMEr PLEASE CALL DOSSIE AT 3 5 9 - 3 2 0 7
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
University Press 136 South
Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
tures have also been published in
3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
Through the Electronic Looking
Glass this book which comes
with red-and-blue viewing glassshy
es can be obtained for $1995 by
calling Cygnus in Phoenix AZ at
602-279-7658
Greta Nettleton
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a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
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Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
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President Clinton Visits Palisades (continued from page 1)
ferences opening speech IBM President Lou Gerstner noted
that Its time to stop making excuses Its time to set stanshy
dards and achieve them This goal appears brave if not parshy
ticularly practical in todays political climate since efforts to
develop national standards since 1989
have met with fierce political opposishy
tion mainly from those who oppose
any increase in Federal involvement in
the education sector
President Clintons speech called
for six broad goals to be met end
automatic promotion from grade to
grade demand more from teachers
demand more from schools make
schools safer and drug-free improve
educational technology and reinvent
the budget process This last item
challenged states to cut regulation
and overhead and to spend more on
the classroom rather than administration
The budgetary angle would seem to be key
Unfortunately Mr Pataki was not around to answer questions
from reporters about the ways that slashing state education
spending will help increase educational quality in New York
IBMs press office was prepared for an onslaught of 700
reporters during the three days (nearly equivalent to the
entire population of Palisades) But with all the flurry did the
summit really get noticed across the country The New York
Fortunately for the nation as a whole the Bergen County Mosquito Abatement Program did not choose this moment to send back their steam shovel to clear more mud out of the Sparkill Creek and possibly scrape a few holes in the Tenneco pipeline (which passshyes 100 yds from the conference center) during the event
Times carried only one short article on page B9 during the
whole event although we were pleased to note that the
Rockland Journal News provided excellent coverage
We also have no way of knowing whether the governors
made any real progress on educational
issues during the conference Did they
just trade some feel-good cliches
about how important public schools are
to the future of this country before movshy
ing on to their luncheon and animated
discussion about which of their number
would be picked to run on the ticket with
Bob Dole Were he still alive a cynical
reporter like Ambrose Bierce could be
excused for musing rather wickedly on
what percentage of the notables in attenshy
dance have in fact sent all their own chilshy
dren to private schools but at 10964 we
are pointedly not cynical and wish all the
participants well in their efforts to do something positive
about public education in this country
However the outcome was entirely unambiguous for
local IBM employees who worked so hard to organize the
event It went phenomenally well exclaimed Ms Collins sevshy
eral weeks later with only a small tinge of relief in her voice
as she reminisced about the extraordinary visit from so many
distinguished guests
Greta S Nettleton
THE LATEST IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Though 10964 reporters had only a brief tour of the sumshymit it was enough to determine that the display of educashytional firepower set up for the nations governors and the President presented the very best of what is now available to educate American children Balconies were a blizzard of cables and electronic equipment as the most exciting teaching organizations in America displayed the full range of their capabilities
Two rooms were of particular interest One held about 30 CD-ROM displays including The Voyager Companys With Open Eyes IBMs Through the WoodsAt the Seashore Davidsons Multimedia Workshop Sunbursts A to Zap and Tom Snyders Great Ocean Resolve In the second room a palpable hum of activity swirled around the conferences Web Site displays
One only hopes that mir nilinns Irarfeis managed time away from pontificating eating and politicking to-sepound--i one of the best demonstrations of educational technology -weve ever seen Sadly not only did the President have no apparent inclination to make history by lunching at George Washingtons table (volunteers stood by ready to whisk it from the library to the summit) he spent so little time at the site that his ability to appreciate the multi-million dolshylar setup must have been practically nil
A 10964 reporter suggested hopefully to the overshyworked IBM staff that they keep the display open an extra day to allow area teachers to visit Alas scheduling conshyflicts called for a swift breakdown of the glorious show
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SOUTH copyRAWGETOWINI SCHOOL MIWS ELECTION RESULTS As a result of the election held on May 8 the budget passed representing a 36 percent increase over last years school budget The election also reseated School Board incumshybents Nancy Russell and Barbara Scheulen for another term
SOUTH ORANGETOWN SCHOOLS RATED HIGHLY The South Orangetown Central School District was selected by School Match as a 1996 Fifth Annual Award-Winning School System The organization a nationwide sershyvice that helps parents employed by corporashytions to find good schooling for their chilshydren uses over 33000 parent questionnaires to identify what parents look for in selecting a school system for their children Only 10 percent of the nations more than 15000 school systems are designated with this honor
SCHOOL BUS PASSING Although the school year is drawing to a close drivers must pay attention to the presshyence of stopped school buses on our roads It is against the law to pass a stopped bus on either side Yet on many of the major roads
in Palisades and South Orangetown people continue to drive past buses many of which have their red lights flashing and stop signs extended Please take notice of this potentially very dangerous situation before we have a local tragedy and please drive safely
SCIENCE AND MATH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM FOR GRADES 7-1 2 The Marie Curie Institute at St Thomas Aquinas College runs a science and math enrichment program for 7th through 12th graders on 10 Saturdays during the fall Students from both public and private schools are welcome Drawing on resources made available by Lamont IBM and Lederle Labs the program ties intershyested students particularly girls to teachshying mentors Although funding from Albany is somewhat uncertain Sister Teresa OConnor assures us that the proshygram is going forward interested stushydents who have not yet applied to this proshygram through their teachers or guidance counselors should contact Sister OConnor at 398-4162 for more information
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S U M M E R P R O G R A M S This summer the South Orangetown Central School District is sponsoring several camps and programs
Cosmos Soccer Camp will have two sessions this summer held at the South Orangetown Middle School Session I will run from July 15 through July 19 Session II from July 22 to July 26 Cost per session is $185 For more information please call 365-1624
Summerstage 96 a series of creative theater and television workshyshops offers six programs all located at Tappan Zee High School For more information about any of these programs please call 914-426-1858
Summerstage Kindergarten for enteringkindergarten students Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 am to 1 pm Early registration fee $200 regular registration fee $240
Summerstage Junior for students entering first grade Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 Five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A presentashytion performance will be held on Wednesday July 31 Early registrashytion $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Players for students entering grades 2 through 5 Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A student performance will be held on Thursday August 1 at 7 pm Early registration $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Troupers for students entering grades 6 through 12 Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A student performance will be held on Thursday August 1 at 7 pm and on Friday August 2 at 7 pm Early registration $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Showstoppers for students entering grades 8 to 12 Session I from Monday July 1 to Friday July 26 Session II from Monday August 5 to Friday August 30 five days a week from 630 pm to 930 pm Session I performance will be held on Friday July 26 at 7 pm Session II performance will be on Friday August 30 at 7 pm Early registration $400 regular registration $440
August TV Live for students entering grades 2 to 12 Monday August 5 to Friday August 30 five days a week Early registration $450 regular registration $490
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LIBRARY NEWS
The Palisades Free Library will be holding
its formal reopening and dedication ceremony on Saturday June 15 at 3 pm The program will include our guest speaker noted childrens author Betty Miles and will culminate with the dedication of the childrens room Refreshments will be served
The Library would like to thank the following people for their generous
donations of time and resources to the Plant Sale Alpine Nursery Margaret Anderson Bonnie Chapin Jonathan and Linda Ewig Marika Hahn Jacqueline Martin the Palisades Presbyterian Church Frances-Pellegrini Nina Prusinowski Lynne Aubrey Seidler Caroline Tapley Mary Tiegreen and Cellen Wolk
N E W B O O K S Adult Non-Fiction Brombert Edouard Manet Rebel
in a Frock Coat Eadie The Awakened Heart Goldhagen Hitlers Willing Executioners Heaney Redress of Poetry Levin Edward Hopper
An Intimate Biography Ozment Burghermeisters Daughter Sweetman Paul Gauguin A Life Trillin Messages From My Father Vanderbilt Mothers Story Viscott Emotional Resilience Wharton Houseboat on the Seine Woodward The Race
Adult Fiction Darnton Neanderthal Mayle Anything Considered Meade Snow Wolf Moore The Statement Palmer Critical Judgement Plain Accordion Crimes Roth From Bondage Weldon Worst Fears
The Library subscribes to 49 periodishycals and 4 newspapers Rockland Journal News New York Times Wall Street Journal and New York Review of Books
C H I L D R E N S P R O G R A M S
The Palisades Free Library looks forshyward to welcoming its younger patrons in the beautiful new childrens room Story time for children ages 3 to Kindergarten will be held on Wednesdays from 130 to 2 pm Children may look forward to stories with books flannel board and puppets as well as songs and fingerplays Please register at the library to let us know if your child will take part
After-school programs for eleshymentary school children will resume in the fall The Summer Reading Program will begin on June 26 We look forward to having all children participate whether they are reading by themshyselves or are still being read to FUN FOR ALL
LIBRARY HOURS Mon-Wed Thurs
Fri Sat Sun
3 pm- 9 pm 10 am - noon and 3 pm - 9 pm 3 pm - 5 pm 11 am-5 pm 1pm- 5 pm (closed in summer)
Palisades Presbyterian CKurcK News ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
Saturday June 2 2 3 pm to 7 pm
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Simon Gerard is one of
Palisades self-taught
Renaissance men Art music
history food and education
are all subjects he has masshy
tered Simons most recent
professional engagement for his
recorder music was at The Awards
Luncheon of the English Speaking
Union in Manhattan Simons event parshy
ties are eagerly looked forward to as
much for conviviality as for the elegant
displays of his cooking skills Indeed
his professional catering services are
in demand from the Hamptons to
Palisades Parents take note he also
designs fantastical birthday parties
with themes such as a pirate ship or an
English castle Simon is a skilled carshy
penter an ability he makes use of for
building cabinets and shelving to house
his and others book collections as
well as for creating his glorious set
designs Currently Simon is working as
a set designer for the Actors Company
in Nyack He also has a detailed knowlshy
edge and appreciation of American and
European silver and of Oriental Rugs
Simon grew up in Palisades
attended local schoolsthen commuted
to Manhattan to attend Robert Louis
Stevenson High School He came back
to Palisades to graduate from his sister
Annies school Skunk Hollow This
school was an incredible educational
adventure where among other things
the students hired their own teachers
(It deserves an article of its own)
Instead of going to college I read the
Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to
cover I took notes on all that interestshy
ed me and followed up on those subshy
jects My education has never stopped
1 am always researching and reading
Indeed Simon has a fine library He is
a book collector specializing in history
art history and especially biography An
interest in history runs in the family
Simons great-grandfather was a
A R T I
medieval historian at Princeton and
Simon inherited part of that library
Simon is also a painter He studshy
ied with Lee Savage who is known both
for his realistic acrylics and for his
career as a teacher at important art
schools in Manhattan Both Simon and
Lee have been strongly influenced by
art history I went over and painted bull
with him in his studio for several
Instead of going to college I read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover I took notes on all that interested me and followed up on those subjects
years says Simon He advised me not
to go the academic route Do not go to
art school he said find your way intushy
itively and just paint So that is what I
did My painting follows the classic
Western painting tradition I consider
myself to be in the direct line from the
Greeks through the Renaissance to
today You can learn much from the Old
Masters What they taught is still releshy
vant to this day
Over the past several years Simon
has shown his paintings throughout the
New York area Last summer he particshy
ipated in the Matterhorns benefit This
fall some of his paintings will be shown
at a gallery in Soho
Simon also loves to teach Over
the years he has acquired a devoted
following for his popular after-school
art classes Simon introduces his
young students to a variety of media
including clay acrylics watercolor and
paper mache I like to use quality
material including special brushes I
think it is important for children to use
good materials so they develop an
appreciation for quality I dont want
children to be discouraged from art
because their materials are poor I also
feel children benefit from a nice dose
of art history My students range in age
from 5 to 131 have taught adults but
for now I am focusing on children My
summer art classes are more relaxed
than the winter classes
Simons art classes are taught in
his studio on Woods Road If anyone
has a budding Picasso living under
their roof they should give Simon a
call at 365-6312
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PALISADES IS PRETTY ORDINARY
Some of us think that Palisades is pretty special and it is in many ways But they arent the ways that are measured by the Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics which is based on the latest available data (1990) from the Census Bureau and other governmental agencies According to this source 996 people live in Palisades in 337 households and relative to other communishyties in Rockland County Palisades is disshytinctive in the following ways 1 ELDERLY RESIDENTS We are one of the
three towns with the highest percentshyage of residents 85 years of age or older (20) This is not surprising since 130 people live at the Palisades Gardens convalescent home
2 HOUSING RENTS The highest percentshyage of monthly rentals over $750 (63) and the highest median monthly rental ($1000)
3 GROWTH IN THE 1 9 6 0 S mdash The highest percentage of housing units built from 1960-69 (412)
There may be other more obscure ways in which Palisades is distinctive But it is not distinctive in many of the ways that some believe Palisades is 1 NOT THE WEALTHIESTmdashaverage houseshy
hold income is higher in New City ($73436) Orangeburg ($73063) and Blauvelt ($72578) than in Palisades ($72315) Per capita income is higher in West Nyack ($28191) and New City ($26267) than in Palisades ($23985) The percentage of households with incomes over $150000 is greater in West Nyack (135) New City (97) Blauvelt (71) Orangeburg (71) Monsey (57) and Tappan (49) than in Palisades (48)
2 NOT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE bull bull (except for rentals above) mdash the
median value of owner-occupied housshying is higher in Pomona ($245747) New City ($245474) Piermont ($240873) West Nyack ($237959) and Monsey (233182) than in Palisades ($231534)
3 NOT THE BEST EDUCATED mdash theper- centage of people with graduate or
professional degrees is higher in West Nyack (214) New City (210) Piermont (184) Suffern (180) Nyack (179) and Sparkill (172) than in Palisades (171)
4 NOT THE MOST PROFESSIONALmdashthe percentage of people with managerial or professional occupations is higher in New City (462) Monsey (427) West Nyack (426) Suffern (421) and Sparkill (421) than in Palisades (420)
Submitted by Jim Uleman who lives in Pearl River (also an average sort of place)
[Editors Note] All incomes given are foreshycast from 1980 census income tabulations and reported in 1989 dollars Other sources show different data on Palisades population the library reports that it serves 1294 children and adults the 1990 Census states that 1459 people live here (but includes Sparkill and Rockland Psychiatric) and the county Board of Elections lists 768 voters over the age of 18 Oh how uncertain is the nature of truth
THE OLD COUNTRY STORE
Dear 10964 I enjoyed Jocelyn DeCrescenzos reminisshycence of the Old Country Store My husshyband and I have lived in it since 1983 Although she felt that the expensive paint doesnt invite strangers and that the steps no longer lure the passer-by in fact there have been numerous visitors mdash strangers knocking at our door to ask if were open When we tell them its no longer a store they ask if they couldnt please just bring in their daughter or grandchild to give them a glimpse of their own childhood The marble-topped counter is still here as are the pot-bellied stove and all of those dim lights
The store is presently my husbands office mdash he produces a small magazine here so the candies and treasures are only memories however one passer-by hapshypened to share my passion for marble colshylecting the small colored balls mdash not MARshyBLE and we sat down and he examined my whole collection For Jocelyn and her daughtermdashI still have my Lucy dolls that I
purchased and cherished when 1 grew up in Rockland County Please do stop and visit sometimemdashwed be happy to share the memories with anyone who would like a look at The Old Country Store
Pat Lindgren Zipparo
PROTECTING PALISADES
Dear Editor For the edification of your readers I would like to tell you a little about the history of the fire department the John Paulding Engine Company which protects the lives and homes of our community
The fire company is named for the American militiaman and patriot John Paulding one of the astute captors of Major John Andre during the American Revolution Since its founding in 1901 the John Paulding Engine Company has provided continual sershyvice to the community
The members of the fire department are all volunteers trained in fighting fires rescue extraction of injured parties from vehicular accidents and all of the other skills needed by the modern-day firefighter
The fire company is governed by its own Board of Directors while the operational aspects are directed by the Fire Chief and his staff of officers The equipment used in this district is of the latest design specifishycally suited for the area covered It is kept in peak operational condition by the memshybers of the company
Currently the members of the Board are William Sullivan Broad Avenue Palisades
Chairman Thomas Carroll Home Tooke Road
Palisades Commissioner Robert Daly Sparkill Commissioner John Kopac Sparkill Commissioner Michael Yannazzone Sparkill Commissioner Dennis Leote Sparkill Treasurer
The Sparkill-Palisades Fire District enjoys the lowest fire tax rate in Orangetown while maintaining a first class volunteer fire department
Sincerely Thomas Carroll
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0trade^ The PIERMONT MARSH is a beautiful natural resource that is a great place to go exploring in the summer If you hike down the gas pipeline to the edge of the river (start from the Tallman Park entrance next to the Oasis snack bar) you can see two little islands with birch trees on them in the reeds that can be reached on foot at low tide If you want to explore by water you can rent a canoe from Bill and Kathy Herguths PARADISE BOATS in Piermont next door to the Kane playground on Sparkill Creek They are always open on
weekends but call ahead at 359-0073 during the week Year-round edushycational PUBLIC FIELD PROGRAMS in the marsh are offered by the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (758-5193) based in Annandale
The William 0 Schaefer Elementary School in Tappan is beginning a subshystantial recycling program which will involve items used at the school such as cans paper Styrofoam lunch trays and also donation of surplus food from the cafeterias to the hungry Special thanks to MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN and her son JOSH DRACO who spearheaded this effort
Welcome to new Palisades residents LESLEY VOGEL her husband SKIP PANETTIERE daughter HAYDEN age 6 and son JANSEN 1 Leslie is an acting coach and is very busy managing her childrens acting careers Skip is a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and
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contracted to the daytime soap One Life to Live and the prime time series It Aint Easy In her spare time she attends TZE Her little brother Jansen models for Wilhelmina
when he is not destroying the house
ANN BROOKE will be offering courses again in the fall on Putting Your Garden to Bed For informashytion call her at 358-7333
ANNIE GERARD will offer seminars this summer on Windows Tricks and Tips for the Computer Please call 359-3261 to sign up
MILBRY POLKS curriculum enrichshyment project Explorations An Educational Adventure will be feashytured on CBS Sunday Morning in June The project highlights the accomplishshyments of women explorers and feashytures material on the man-eating tigers of the Sunderbans swamps in Bangladesh
The Hudson House restaurant in Nyack is showing an exhibition of watercolors by Palisades artist ROBERT ADZEMA through the end of June
JANE HEROLD is back in business after having recovered from her broken arm I am throwing pots and have lit the
wood kiln Call her at 359-5421 to see her latest work
The PALISADES AIKIDO CLUB is offering a benefit seminar August 17 and 18 with Mary Heiny Sensei Mary is the highest ranked woman in Aikido in North America Proceeds from the seminar benefit Taklung Kogyu Manuscript Preservation Project in Tibet For more information call FRED LITTLE at 359-3261
Golf Writer HUBERT PEDROLI amp graphic designer MARY TIEGREEN have collaborated on a new book
A Passion for the Game of Golf to be published in June by Andrews and McMeel In addition Mary worked with author Jana Kolpen on an enchanting book The Secrets of Pistoulet published in May
Beauty consultant TRACY GARRISON has a new home service No time to pick up your cosmetic products She will pick them up (Arden Clinique Lancome etc) and bring them to Palisades for you Call her at 359-5812
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JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
CAPTION ABOUT DOSSIE
AND HER HELPER
DOSSIE NEEDS YOUR HELP HER HELPER N A N r
RECENTLY BROKE HER ARM AND DOSSIE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE MAINTEshyNANCE OF THE GARDEN IF ANYONE COULD CONshyTRIBUTE SOME TIMEr PLEASE CALL DOSSIE AT 3 5 9 - 3 2 0 7
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
University Press 136 South
Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
tures have also been published in
3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
Through the Electronic Looking
Glass this book which comes
with red-and-blue viewing glassshy
es can be obtained for $1995 by
calling Cygnus in Phoenix AZ at
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Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
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Antioxidant Vitamins
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Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
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SOUTH copyRAWGETOWINI SCHOOL MIWS ELECTION RESULTS As a result of the election held on May 8 the budget passed representing a 36 percent increase over last years school budget The election also reseated School Board incumshybents Nancy Russell and Barbara Scheulen for another term
SOUTH ORANGETOWN SCHOOLS RATED HIGHLY The South Orangetown Central School District was selected by School Match as a 1996 Fifth Annual Award-Winning School System The organization a nationwide sershyvice that helps parents employed by corporashytions to find good schooling for their chilshydren uses over 33000 parent questionnaires to identify what parents look for in selecting a school system for their children Only 10 percent of the nations more than 15000 school systems are designated with this honor
SCHOOL BUS PASSING Although the school year is drawing to a close drivers must pay attention to the presshyence of stopped school buses on our roads It is against the law to pass a stopped bus on either side Yet on many of the major roads
in Palisades and South Orangetown people continue to drive past buses many of which have their red lights flashing and stop signs extended Please take notice of this potentially very dangerous situation before we have a local tragedy and please drive safely
SCIENCE AND MATH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM FOR GRADES 7-1 2 The Marie Curie Institute at St Thomas Aquinas College runs a science and math enrichment program for 7th through 12th graders on 10 Saturdays during the fall Students from both public and private schools are welcome Drawing on resources made available by Lamont IBM and Lederle Labs the program ties intershyested students particularly girls to teachshying mentors Although funding from Albany is somewhat uncertain Sister Teresa OConnor assures us that the proshygram is going forward interested stushydents who have not yet applied to this proshygram through their teachers or guidance counselors should contact Sister OConnor at 398-4162 for more information
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Cosmos Soccer Camp will have two sessions this summer held at the South Orangetown Middle School Session I will run from July 15 through July 19 Session II from July 22 to July 26 Cost per session is $185 For more information please call 365-1624
Summerstage 96 a series of creative theater and television workshyshops offers six programs all located at Tappan Zee High School For more information about any of these programs please call 914-426-1858
Summerstage Kindergarten for enteringkindergarten students Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 am to 1 pm Early registration fee $200 regular registration fee $240
Summerstage Junior for students entering first grade Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 Five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A presentashytion performance will be held on Wednesday July 31 Early registrashytion $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Players for students entering grades 2 through 5 Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A student performance will be held on Thursday August 1 at 7 pm Early registration $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Troupers for students entering grades 6 through 12 Monday July 1 to Friday August 2 five days a week from 9 am to 1 pm A student performance will be held on Thursday August 1 at 7 pm and on Friday August 2 at 7 pm Early registration $450 regular registration $490
Summerstage Showstoppers for students entering grades 8 to 12 Session I from Monday July 1 to Friday July 26 Session II from Monday August 5 to Friday August 30 five days a week from 630 pm to 930 pm Session I performance will be held on Friday July 26 at 7 pm Session II performance will be on Friday August 30 at 7 pm Early registration $400 regular registration $440
August TV Live for students entering grades 2 to 12 Monday August 5 to Friday August 30 five days a week Early registration $450 regular registration $490
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LIBRARY NEWS
The Palisades Free Library will be holding
its formal reopening and dedication ceremony on Saturday June 15 at 3 pm The program will include our guest speaker noted childrens author Betty Miles and will culminate with the dedication of the childrens room Refreshments will be served
The Library would like to thank the following people for their generous
donations of time and resources to the Plant Sale Alpine Nursery Margaret Anderson Bonnie Chapin Jonathan and Linda Ewig Marika Hahn Jacqueline Martin the Palisades Presbyterian Church Frances-Pellegrini Nina Prusinowski Lynne Aubrey Seidler Caroline Tapley Mary Tiegreen and Cellen Wolk
N E W B O O K S Adult Non-Fiction Brombert Edouard Manet Rebel
in a Frock Coat Eadie The Awakened Heart Goldhagen Hitlers Willing Executioners Heaney Redress of Poetry Levin Edward Hopper
An Intimate Biography Ozment Burghermeisters Daughter Sweetman Paul Gauguin A Life Trillin Messages From My Father Vanderbilt Mothers Story Viscott Emotional Resilience Wharton Houseboat on the Seine Woodward The Race
Adult Fiction Darnton Neanderthal Mayle Anything Considered Meade Snow Wolf Moore The Statement Palmer Critical Judgement Plain Accordion Crimes Roth From Bondage Weldon Worst Fears
The Library subscribes to 49 periodishycals and 4 newspapers Rockland Journal News New York Times Wall Street Journal and New York Review of Books
C H I L D R E N S P R O G R A M S
The Palisades Free Library looks forshyward to welcoming its younger patrons in the beautiful new childrens room Story time for children ages 3 to Kindergarten will be held on Wednesdays from 130 to 2 pm Children may look forward to stories with books flannel board and puppets as well as songs and fingerplays Please register at the library to let us know if your child will take part
After-school programs for eleshymentary school children will resume in the fall The Summer Reading Program will begin on June 26 We look forward to having all children participate whether they are reading by themshyselves or are still being read to FUN FOR ALL
LIBRARY HOURS Mon-Wed Thurs
Fri Sat Sun
3 pm- 9 pm 10 am - noon and 3 pm - 9 pm 3 pm - 5 pm 11 am-5 pm 1pm- 5 pm (closed in summer)
Palisades Presbyterian CKurcK News ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
Saturday June 2 2 3 pm to 7 pm
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Simon Gerard is one of
Palisades self-taught
Renaissance men Art music
history food and education
are all subjects he has masshy
tered Simons most recent
professional engagement for his
recorder music was at The Awards
Luncheon of the English Speaking
Union in Manhattan Simons event parshy
ties are eagerly looked forward to as
much for conviviality as for the elegant
displays of his cooking skills Indeed
his professional catering services are
in demand from the Hamptons to
Palisades Parents take note he also
designs fantastical birthday parties
with themes such as a pirate ship or an
English castle Simon is a skilled carshy
penter an ability he makes use of for
building cabinets and shelving to house
his and others book collections as
well as for creating his glorious set
designs Currently Simon is working as
a set designer for the Actors Company
in Nyack He also has a detailed knowlshy
edge and appreciation of American and
European silver and of Oriental Rugs
Simon grew up in Palisades
attended local schoolsthen commuted
to Manhattan to attend Robert Louis
Stevenson High School He came back
to Palisades to graduate from his sister
Annies school Skunk Hollow This
school was an incredible educational
adventure where among other things
the students hired their own teachers
(It deserves an article of its own)
Instead of going to college I read the
Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to
cover I took notes on all that interestshy
ed me and followed up on those subshy
jects My education has never stopped
1 am always researching and reading
Indeed Simon has a fine library He is
a book collector specializing in history
art history and especially biography An
interest in history runs in the family
Simons great-grandfather was a
A R T I
medieval historian at Princeton and
Simon inherited part of that library
Simon is also a painter He studshy
ied with Lee Savage who is known both
for his realistic acrylics and for his
career as a teacher at important art
schools in Manhattan Both Simon and
Lee have been strongly influenced by
art history I went over and painted bull
with him in his studio for several
Instead of going to college I read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover I took notes on all that interested me and followed up on those subjects
years says Simon He advised me not
to go the academic route Do not go to
art school he said find your way intushy
itively and just paint So that is what I
did My painting follows the classic
Western painting tradition I consider
myself to be in the direct line from the
Greeks through the Renaissance to
today You can learn much from the Old
Masters What they taught is still releshy
vant to this day
Over the past several years Simon
has shown his paintings throughout the
New York area Last summer he particshy
ipated in the Matterhorns benefit This
fall some of his paintings will be shown
at a gallery in Soho
Simon also loves to teach Over
the years he has acquired a devoted
following for his popular after-school
art classes Simon introduces his
young students to a variety of media
including clay acrylics watercolor and
paper mache I like to use quality
material including special brushes I
think it is important for children to use
good materials so they develop an
appreciation for quality I dont want
children to be discouraged from art
because their materials are poor I also
feel children benefit from a nice dose
of art history My students range in age
from 5 to 131 have taught adults but
for now I am focusing on children My
summer art classes are more relaxed
than the winter classes
Simons art classes are taught in
his studio on Woods Road If anyone
has a budding Picasso living under
their roof they should give Simon a
call at 365-6312
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PALISADES IS PRETTY ORDINARY
Some of us think that Palisades is pretty special and it is in many ways But they arent the ways that are measured by the Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics which is based on the latest available data (1990) from the Census Bureau and other governmental agencies According to this source 996 people live in Palisades in 337 households and relative to other communishyties in Rockland County Palisades is disshytinctive in the following ways 1 ELDERLY RESIDENTS We are one of the
three towns with the highest percentshyage of residents 85 years of age or older (20) This is not surprising since 130 people live at the Palisades Gardens convalescent home
2 HOUSING RENTS The highest percentshyage of monthly rentals over $750 (63) and the highest median monthly rental ($1000)
3 GROWTH IN THE 1 9 6 0 S mdash The highest percentage of housing units built from 1960-69 (412)
There may be other more obscure ways in which Palisades is distinctive But it is not distinctive in many of the ways that some believe Palisades is 1 NOT THE WEALTHIESTmdashaverage houseshy
hold income is higher in New City ($73436) Orangeburg ($73063) and Blauvelt ($72578) than in Palisades ($72315) Per capita income is higher in West Nyack ($28191) and New City ($26267) than in Palisades ($23985) The percentage of households with incomes over $150000 is greater in West Nyack (135) New City (97) Blauvelt (71) Orangeburg (71) Monsey (57) and Tappan (49) than in Palisades (48)
2 NOT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE bull bull (except for rentals above) mdash the
median value of owner-occupied housshying is higher in Pomona ($245747) New City ($245474) Piermont ($240873) West Nyack ($237959) and Monsey (233182) than in Palisades ($231534)
3 NOT THE BEST EDUCATED mdash theper- centage of people with graduate or
professional degrees is higher in West Nyack (214) New City (210) Piermont (184) Suffern (180) Nyack (179) and Sparkill (172) than in Palisades (171)
4 NOT THE MOST PROFESSIONALmdashthe percentage of people with managerial or professional occupations is higher in New City (462) Monsey (427) West Nyack (426) Suffern (421) and Sparkill (421) than in Palisades (420)
Submitted by Jim Uleman who lives in Pearl River (also an average sort of place)
[Editors Note] All incomes given are foreshycast from 1980 census income tabulations and reported in 1989 dollars Other sources show different data on Palisades population the library reports that it serves 1294 children and adults the 1990 Census states that 1459 people live here (but includes Sparkill and Rockland Psychiatric) and the county Board of Elections lists 768 voters over the age of 18 Oh how uncertain is the nature of truth
THE OLD COUNTRY STORE
Dear 10964 I enjoyed Jocelyn DeCrescenzos reminisshycence of the Old Country Store My husshyband and I have lived in it since 1983 Although she felt that the expensive paint doesnt invite strangers and that the steps no longer lure the passer-by in fact there have been numerous visitors mdash strangers knocking at our door to ask if were open When we tell them its no longer a store they ask if they couldnt please just bring in their daughter or grandchild to give them a glimpse of their own childhood The marble-topped counter is still here as are the pot-bellied stove and all of those dim lights
The store is presently my husbands office mdash he produces a small magazine here so the candies and treasures are only memories however one passer-by hapshypened to share my passion for marble colshylecting the small colored balls mdash not MARshyBLE and we sat down and he examined my whole collection For Jocelyn and her daughtermdashI still have my Lucy dolls that I
purchased and cherished when 1 grew up in Rockland County Please do stop and visit sometimemdashwed be happy to share the memories with anyone who would like a look at The Old Country Store
Pat Lindgren Zipparo
PROTECTING PALISADES
Dear Editor For the edification of your readers I would like to tell you a little about the history of the fire department the John Paulding Engine Company which protects the lives and homes of our community
The fire company is named for the American militiaman and patriot John Paulding one of the astute captors of Major John Andre during the American Revolution Since its founding in 1901 the John Paulding Engine Company has provided continual sershyvice to the community
The members of the fire department are all volunteers trained in fighting fires rescue extraction of injured parties from vehicular accidents and all of the other skills needed by the modern-day firefighter
The fire company is governed by its own Board of Directors while the operational aspects are directed by the Fire Chief and his staff of officers The equipment used in this district is of the latest design specifishycally suited for the area covered It is kept in peak operational condition by the memshybers of the company
Currently the members of the Board are William Sullivan Broad Avenue Palisades
Chairman Thomas Carroll Home Tooke Road
Palisades Commissioner Robert Daly Sparkill Commissioner John Kopac Sparkill Commissioner Michael Yannazzone Sparkill Commissioner Dennis Leote Sparkill Treasurer
The Sparkill-Palisades Fire District enjoys the lowest fire tax rate in Orangetown while maintaining a first class volunteer fire department
Sincerely Thomas Carroll
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0trade^ The PIERMONT MARSH is a beautiful natural resource that is a great place to go exploring in the summer If you hike down the gas pipeline to the edge of the river (start from the Tallman Park entrance next to the Oasis snack bar) you can see two little islands with birch trees on them in the reeds that can be reached on foot at low tide If you want to explore by water you can rent a canoe from Bill and Kathy Herguths PARADISE BOATS in Piermont next door to the Kane playground on Sparkill Creek They are always open on
weekends but call ahead at 359-0073 during the week Year-round edushycational PUBLIC FIELD PROGRAMS in the marsh are offered by the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (758-5193) based in Annandale
The William 0 Schaefer Elementary School in Tappan is beginning a subshystantial recycling program which will involve items used at the school such as cans paper Styrofoam lunch trays and also donation of surplus food from the cafeterias to the hungry Special thanks to MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN and her son JOSH DRACO who spearheaded this effort
Welcome to new Palisades residents LESLEY VOGEL her husband SKIP PANETTIERE daughter HAYDEN age 6 and son JANSEN 1 Leslie is an acting coach and is very busy managing her childrens acting careers Skip is a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and
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contracted to the daytime soap One Life to Live and the prime time series It Aint Easy In her spare time she attends TZE Her little brother Jansen models for Wilhelmina
when he is not destroying the house
ANN BROOKE will be offering courses again in the fall on Putting Your Garden to Bed For informashytion call her at 358-7333
ANNIE GERARD will offer seminars this summer on Windows Tricks and Tips for the Computer Please call 359-3261 to sign up
MILBRY POLKS curriculum enrichshyment project Explorations An Educational Adventure will be feashytured on CBS Sunday Morning in June The project highlights the accomplishshyments of women explorers and feashytures material on the man-eating tigers of the Sunderbans swamps in Bangladesh
The Hudson House restaurant in Nyack is showing an exhibition of watercolors by Palisades artist ROBERT ADZEMA through the end of June
JANE HEROLD is back in business after having recovered from her broken arm I am throwing pots and have lit the
wood kiln Call her at 359-5421 to see her latest work
The PALISADES AIKIDO CLUB is offering a benefit seminar August 17 and 18 with Mary Heiny Sensei Mary is the highest ranked woman in Aikido in North America Proceeds from the seminar benefit Taklung Kogyu Manuscript Preservation Project in Tibet For more information call FRED LITTLE at 359-3261
Golf Writer HUBERT PEDROLI amp graphic designer MARY TIEGREEN have collaborated on a new book
A Passion for the Game of Golf to be published in June by Andrews and McMeel In addition Mary worked with author Jana Kolpen on an enchanting book The Secrets of Pistoulet published in May
Beauty consultant TRACY GARRISON has a new home service No time to pick up your cosmetic products She will pick them up (Arden Clinique Lancome etc) and bring them to Palisades for you Call her at 359-5812
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JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
CAPTION ABOUT DOSSIE
AND HER HELPER
DOSSIE NEEDS YOUR HELP HER HELPER N A N r
RECENTLY BROKE HER ARM AND DOSSIE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE MAINTEshyNANCE OF THE GARDEN IF ANYONE COULD CONshyTRIBUTE SOME TIMEr PLEASE CALL DOSSIE AT 3 5 9 - 3 2 0 7
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
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Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
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3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
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a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
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covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
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HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
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From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
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LIBRARY NEWS
The Palisades Free Library will be holding
its formal reopening and dedication ceremony on Saturday June 15 at 3 pm The program will include our guest speaker noted childrens author Betty Miles and will culminate with the dedication of the childrens room Refreshments will be served
The Library would like to thank the following people for their generous
donations of time and resources to the Plant Sale Alpine Nursery Margaret Anderson Bonnie Chapin Jonathan and Linda Ewig Marika Hahn Jacqueline Martin the Palisades Presbyterian Church Frances-Pellegrini Nina Prusinowski Lynne Aubrey Seidler Caroline Tapley Mary Tiegreen and Cellen Wolk
N E W B O O K S Adult Non-Fiction Brombert Edouard Manet Rebel
in a Frock Coat Eadie The Awakened Heart Goldhagen Hitlers Willing Executioners Heaney Redress of Poetry Levin Edward Hopper
An Intimate Biography Ozment Burghermeisters Daughter Sweetman Paul Gauguin A Life Trillin Messages From My Father Vanderbilt Mothers Story Viscott Emotional Resilience Wharton Houseboat on the Seine Woodward The Race
Adult Fiction Darnton Neanderthal Mayle Anything Considered Meade Snow Wolf Moore The Statement Palmer Critical Judgement Plain Accordion Crimes Roth From Bondage Weldon Worst Fears
The Library subscribes to 49 periodishycals and 4 newspapers Rockland Journal News New York Times Wall Street Journal and New York Review of Books
C H I L D R E N S P R O G R A M S
The Palisades Free Library looks forshyward to welcoming its younger patrons in the beautiful new childrens room Story time for children ages 3 to Kindergarten will be held on Wednesdays from 130 to 2 pm Children may look forward to stories with books flannel board and puppets as well as songs and fingerplays Please register at the library to let us know if your child will take part
After-school programs for eleshymentary school children will resume in the fall The Summer Reading Program will begin on June 26 We look forward to having all children participate whether they are reading by themshyselves or are still being read to FUN FOR ALL
LIBRARY HOURS Mon-Wed Thurs
Fri Sat Sun
3 pm- 9 pm 10 am - noon and 3 pm - 9 pm 3 pm - 5 pm 11 am-5 pm 1pm- 5 pm (closed in summer)
Palisades Presbyterian CKurcK News ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
Saturday June 2 2 3 pm to 7 pm
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Simon Gerard is one of
Palisades self-taught
Renaissance men Art music
history food and education
are all subjects he has masshy
tered Simons most recent
professional engagement for his
recorder music was at The Awards
Luncheon of the English Speaking
Union in Manhattan Simons event parshy
ties are eagerly looked forward to as
much for conviviality as for the elegant
displays of his cooking skills Indeed
his professional catering services are
in demand from the Hamptons to
Palisades Parents take note he also
designs fantastical birthday parties
with themes such as a pirate ship or an
English castle Simon is a skilled carshy
penter an ability he makes use of for
building cabinets and shelving to house
his and others book collections as
well as for creating his glorious set
designs Currently Simon is working as
a set designer for the Actors Company
in Nyack He also has a detailed knowlshy
edge and appreciation of American and
European silver and of Oriental Rugs
Simon grew up in Palisades
attended local schoolsthen commuted
to Manhattan to attend Robert Louis
Stevenson High School He came back
to Palisades to graduate from his sister
Annies school Skunk Hollow This
school was an incredible educational
adventure where among other things
the students hired their own teachers
(It deserves an article of its own)
Instead of going to college I read the
Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to
cover I took notes on all that interestshy
ed me and followed up on those subshy
jects My education has never stopped
1 am always researching and reading
Indeed Simon has a fine library He is
a book collector specializing in history
art history and especially biography An
interest in history runs in the family
Simons great-grandfather was a
A R T I
medieval historian at Princeton and
Simon inherited part of that library
Simon is also a painter He studshy
ied with Lee Savage who is known both
for his realistic acrylics and for his
career as a teacher at important art
schools in Manhattan Both Simon and
Lee have been strongly influenced by
art history I went over and painted bull
with him in his studio for several
Instead of going to college I read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover I took notes on all that interested me and followed up on those subjects
years says Simon He advised me not
to go the academic route Do not go to
art school he said find your way intushy
itively and just paint So that is what I
did My painting follows the classic
Western painting tradition I consider
myself to be in the direct line from the
Greeks through the Renaissance to
today You can learn much from the Old
Masters What they taught is still releshy
vant to this day
Over the past several years Simon
has shown his paintings throughout the
New York area Last summer he particshy
ipated in the Matterhorns benefit This
fall some of his paintings will be shown
at a gallery in Soho
Simon also loves to teach Over
the years he has acquired a devoted
following for his popular after-school
art classes Simon introduces his
young students to a variety of media
including clay acrylics watercolor and
paper mache I like to use quality
material including special brushes I
think it is important for children to use
good materials so they develop an
appreciation for quality I dont want
children to be discouraged from art
because their materials are poor I also
feel children benefit from a nice dose
of art history My students range in age
from 5 to 131 have taught adults but
for now I am focusing on children My
summer art classes are more relaxed
than the winter classes
Simons art classes are taught in
his studio on Woods Road If anyone
has a budding Picasso living under
their roof they should give Simon a
call at 365-6312
MilbryPolk
PALISADES IS PRETTY ORDINARY
Some of us think that Palisades is pretty special and it is in many ways But they arent the ways that are measured by the Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics which is based on the latest available data (1990) from the Census Bureau and other governmental agencies According to this source 996 people live in Palisades in 337 households and relative to other communishyties in Rockland County Palisades is disshytinctive in the following ways 1 ELDERLY RESIDENTS We are one of the
three towns with the highest percentshyage of residents 85 years of age or older (20) This is not surprising since 130 people live at the Palisades Gardens convalescent home
2 HOUSING RENTS The highest percentshyage of monthly rentals over $750 (63) and the highest median monthly rental ($1000)
3 GROWTH IN THE 1 9 6 0 S mdash The highest percentage of housing units built from 1960-69 (412)
There may be other more obscure ways in which Palisades is distinctive But it is not distinctive in many of the ways that some believe Palisades is 1 NOT THE WEALTHIESTmdashaverage houseshy
hold income is higher in New City ($73436) Orangeburg ($73063) and Blauvelt ($72578) than in Palisades ($72315) Per capita income is higher in West Nyack ($28191) and New City ($26267) than in Palisades ($23985) The percentage of households with incomes over $150000 is greater in West Nyack (135) New City (97) Blauvelt (71) Orangeburg (71) Monsey (57) and Tappan (49) than in Palisades (48)
2 NOT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE bull bull (except for rentals above) mdash the
median value of owner-occupied housshying is higher in Pomona ($245747) New City ($245474) Piermont ($240873) West Nyack ($237959) and Monsey (233182) than in Palisades ($231534)
3 NOT THE BEST EDUCATED mdash theper- centage of people with graduate or
professional degrees is higher in West Nyack (214) New City (210) Piermont (184) Suffern (180) Nyack (179) and Sparkill (172) than in Palisades (171)
4 NOT THE MOST PROFESSIONALmdashthe percentage of people with managerial or professional occupations is higher in New City (462) Monsey (427) West Nyack (426) Suffern (421) and Sparkill (421) than in Palisades (420)
Submitted by Jim Uleman who lives in Pearl River (also an average sort of place)
[Editors Note] All incomes given are foreshycast from 1980 census income tabulations and reported in 1989 dollars Other sources show different data on Palisades population the library reports that it serves 1294 children and adults the 1990 Census states that 1459 people live here (but includes Sparkill and Rockland Psychiatric) and the county Board of Elections lists 768 voters over the age of 18 Oh how uncertain is the nature of truth
THE OLD COUNTRY STORE
Dear 10964 I enjoyed Jocelyn DeCrescenzos reminisshycence of the Old Country Store My husshyband and I have lived in it since 1983 Although she felt that the expensive paint doesnt invite strangers and that the steps no longer lure the passer-by in fact there have been numerous visitors mdash strangers knocking at our door to ask if were open When we tell them its no longer a store they ask if they couldnt please just bring in their daughter or grandchild to give them a glimpse of their own childhood The marble-topped counter is still here as are the pot-bellied stove and all of those dim lights
The store is presently my husbands office mdash he produces a small magazine here so the candies and treasures are only memories however one passer-by hapshypened to share my passion for marble colshylecting the small colored balls mdash not MARshyBLE and we sat down and he examined my whole collection For Jocelyn and her daughtermdashI still have my Lucy dolls that I
purchased and cherished when 1 grew up in Rockland County Please do stop and visit sometimemdashwed be happy to share the memories with anyone who would like a look at The Old Country Store
Pat Lindgren Zipparo
PROTECTING PALISADES
Dear Editor For the edification of your readers I would like to tell you a little about the history of the fire department the John Paulding Engine Company which protects the lives and homes of our community
The fire company is named for the American militiaman and patriot John Paulding one of the astute captors of Major John Andre during the American Revolution Since its founding in 1901 the John Paulding Engine Company has provided continual sershyvice to the community
The members of the fire department are all volunteers trained in fighting fires rescue extraction of injured parties from vehicular accidents and all of the other skills needed by the modern-day firefighter
The fire company is governed by its own Board of Directors while the operational aspects are directed by the Fire Chief and his staff of officers The equipment used in this district is of the latest design specifishycally suited for the area covered It is kept in peak operational condition by the memshybers of the company
Currently the members of the Board are William Sullivan Broad Avenue Palisades
Chairman Thomas Carroll Home Tooke Road
Palisades Commissioner Robert Daly Sparkill Commissioner John Kopac Sparkill Commissioner Michael Yannazzone Sparkill Commissioner Dennis Leote Sparkill Treasurer
The Sparkill-Palisades Fire District enjoys the lowest fire tax rate in Orangetown while maintaining a first class volunteer fire department
Sincerely Thomas Carroll
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0trade^ The PIERMONT MARSH is a beautiful natural resource that is a great place to go exploring in the summer If you hike down the gas pipeline to the edge of the river (start from the Tallman Park entrance next to the Oasis snack bar) you can see two little islands with birch trees on them in the reeds that can be reached on foot at low tide If you want to explore by water you can rent a canoe from Bill and Kathy Herguths PARADISE BOATS in Piermont next door to the Kane playground on Sparkill Creek They are always open on
weekends but call ahead at 359-0073 during the week Year-round edushycational PUBLIC FIELD PROGRAMS in the marsh are offered by the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (758-5193) based in Annandale
The William 0 Schaefer Elementary School in Tappan is beginning a subshystantial recycling program which will involve items used at the school such as cans paper Styrofoam lunch trays and also donation of surplus food from the cafeterias to the hungry Special thanks to MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN and her son JOSH DRACO who spearheaded this effort
Welcome to new Palisades residents LESLEY VOGEL her husband SKIP PANETTIERE daughter HAYDEN age 6 and son JANSEN 1 Leslie is an acting coach and is very busy managing her childrens acting careers Skip is a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and
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contracted to the daytime soap One Life to Live and the prime time series It Aint Easy In her spare time she attends TZE Her little brother Jansen models for Wilhelmina
when he is not destroying the house
ANN BROOKE will be offering courses again in the fall on Putting Your Garden to Bed For informashytion call her at 358-7333
ANNIE GERARD will offer seminars this summer on Windows Tricks and Tips for the Computer Please call 359-3261 to sign up
MILBRY POLKS curriculum enrichshyment project Explorations An Educational Adventure will be feashytured on CBS Sunday Morning in June The project highlights the accomplishshyments of women explorers and feashytures material on the man-eating tigers of the Sunderbans swamps in Bangladesh
The Hudson House restaurant in Nyack is showing an exhibition of watercolors by Palisades artist ROBERT ADZEMA through the end of June
JANE HEROLD is back in business after having recovered from her broken arm I am throwing pots and have lit the
wood kiln Call her at 359-5421 to see her latest work
The PALISADES AIKIDO CLUB is offering a benefit seminar August 17 and 18 with Mary Heiny Sensei Mary is the highest ranked woman in Aikido in North America Proceeds from the seminar benefit Taklung Kogyu Manuscript Preservation Project in Tibet For more information call FRED LITTLE at 359-3261
Golf Writer HUBERT PEDROLI amp graphic designer MARY TIEGREEN have collaborated on a new book
A Passion for the Game of Golf to be published in June by Andrews and McMeel In addition Mary worked with author Jana Kolpen on an enchanting book The Secrets of Pistoulet published in May
Beauty consultant TRACY GARRISON has a new home service No time to pick up your cosmetic products She will pick them up (Arden Clinique Lancome etc) and bring them to Palisades for you Call her at 359-5812
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JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
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MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
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entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
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tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
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Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
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review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
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LIBRARY NEWS
The Palisades Free Library will be holding
its formal reopening and dedication ceremony on Saturday June 15 at 3 pm The program will include our guest speaker noted childrens author Betty Miles and will culminate with the dedication of the childrens room Refreshments will be served
The Library would like to thank the following people for their generous
donations of time and resources to the Plant Sale Alpine Nursery Margaret Anderson Bonnie Chapin Jonathan and Linda Ewig Marika Hahn Jacqueline Martin the Palisades Presbyterian Church Frances-Pellegrini Nina Prusinowski Lynne Aubrey Seidler Caroline Tapley Mary Tiegreen and Cellen Wolk
N E W B O O K S Adult Non-Fiction Brombert Edouard Manet Rebel
in a Frock Coat Eadie The Awakened Heart Goldhagen Hitlers Willing Executioners Heaney Redress of Poetry Levin Edward Hopper
An Intimate Biography Ozment Burghermeisters Daughter Sweetman Paul Gauguin A Life Trillin Messages From My Father Vanderbilt Mothers Story Viscott Emotional Resilience Wharton Houseboat on the Seine Woodward The Race
Adult Fiction Darnton Neanderthal Mayle Anything Considered Meade Snow Wolf Moore The Statement Palmer Critical Judgement Plain Accordion Crimes Roth From Bondage Weldon Worst Fears
The Library subscribes to 49 periodishycals and 4 newspapers Rockland Journal News New York Times Wall Street Journal and New York Review of Books
C H I L D R E N S P R O G R A M S
The Palisades Free Library looks forshyward to welcoming its younger patrons in the beautiful new childrens room Story time for children ages 3 to Kindergarten will be held on Wednesdays from 130 to 2 pm Children may look forward to stories with books flannel board and puppets as well as songs and fingerplays Please register at the library to let us know if your child will take part
After-school programs for eleshymentary school children will resume in the fall The Summer Reading Program will begin on June 26 We look forward to having all children participate whether they are reading by themshyselves or are still being read to FUN FOR ALL
LIBRARY HOURS Mon-Wed Thurs
Fri Sat Sun
3 pm- 9 pm 10 am - noon and 3 pm - 9 pm 3 pm - 5 pm 11 am-5 pm 1pm- 5 pm (closed in summer)
Palisades Presbyterian CKurcK News ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
Saturday June 2 2 3 pm to 7 pm
O n tke manse lawn Washington Spring Rd opposite tke ckurck
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Sunday services bullwill be at 10 am
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Simon Gerard is one of
Palisades self-taught
Renaissance men Art music
history food and education
are all subjects he has masshy
tered Simons most recent
professional engagement for his
recorder music was at The Awards
Luncheon of the English Speaking
Union in Manhattan Simons event parshy
ties are eagerly looked forward to as
much for conviviality as for the elegant
displays of his cooking skills Indeed
his professional catering services are
in demand from the Hamptons to
Palisades Parents take note he also
designs fantastical birthday parties
with themes such as a pirate ship or an
English castle Simon is a skilled carshy
penter an ability he makes use of for
building cabinets and shelving to house
his and others book collections as
well as for creating his glorious set
designs Currently Simon is working as
a set designer for the Actors Company
in Nyack He also has a detailed knowlshy
edge and appreciation of American and
European silver and of Oriental Rugs
Simon grew up in Palisades
attended local schoolsthen commuted
to Manhattan to attend Robert Louis
Stevenson High School He came back
to Palisades to graduate from his sister
Annies school Skunk Hollow This
school was an incredible educational
adventure where among other things
the students hired their own teachers
(It deserves an article of its own)
Instead of going to college I read the
Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to
cover I took notes on all that interestshy
ed me and followed up on those subshy
jects My education has never stopped
1 am always researching and reading
Indeed Simon has a fine library He is
a book collector specializing in history
art history and especially biography An
interest in history runs in the family
Simons great-grandfather was a
A R T I
medieval historian at Princeton and
Simon inherited part of that library
Simon is also a painter He studshy
ied with Lee Savage who is known both
for his realistic acrylics and for his
career as a teacher at important art
schools in Manhattan Both Simon and
Lee have been strongly influenced by
art history I went over and painted bull
with him in his studio for several
Instead of going to college I read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover I took notes on all that interested me and followed up on those subjects
years says Simon He advised me not
to go the academic route Do not go to
art school he said find your way intushy
itively and just paint So that is what I
did My painting follows the classic
Western painting tradition I consider
myself to be in the direct line from the
Greeks through the Renaissance to
today You can learn much from the Old
Masters What they taught is still releshy
vant to this day
Over the past several years Simon
has shown his paintings throughout the
New York area Last summer he particshy
ipated in the Matterhorns benefit This
fall some of his paintings will be shown
at a gallery in Soho
Simon also loves to teach Over
the years he has acquired a devoted
following for his popular after-school
art classes Simon introduces his
young students to a variety of media
including clay acrylics watercolor and
paper mache I like to use quality
material including special brushes I
think it is important for children to use
good materials so they develop an
appreciation for quality I dont want
children to be discouraged from art
because their materials are poor I also
feel children benefit from a nice dose
of art history My students range in age
from 5 to 131 have taught adults but
for now I am focusing on children My
summer art classes are more relaxed
than the winter classes
Simons art classes are taught in
his studio on Woods Road If anyone
has a budding Picasso living under
their roof they should give Simon a
call at 365-6312
MilbryPolk
PALISADES IS PRETTY ORDINARY
Some of us think that Palisades is pretty special and it is in many ways But they arent the ways that are measured by the Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics which is based on the latest available data (1990) from the Census Bureau and other governmental agencies According to this source 996 people live in Palisades in 337 households and relative to other communishyties in Rockland County Palisades is disshytinctive in the following ways 1 ELDERLY RESIDENTS We are one of the
three towns with the highest percentshyage of residents 85 years of age or older (20) This is not surprising since 130 people live at the Palisades Gardens convalescent home
2 HOUSING RENTS The highest percentshyage of monthly rentals over $750 (63) and the highest median monthly rental ($1000)
3 GROWTH IN THE 1 9 6 0 S mdash The highest percentage of housing units built from 1960-69 (412)
There may be other more obscure ways in which Palisades is distinctive But it is not distinctive in many of the ways that some believe Palisades is 1 NOT THE WEALTHIESTmdashaverage houseshy
hold income is higher in New City ($73436) Orangeburg ($73063) and Blauvelt ($72578) than in Palisades ($72315) Per capita income is higher in West Nyack ($28191) and New City ($26267) than in Palisades ($23985) The percentage of households with incomes over $150000 is greater in West Nyack (135) New City (97) Blauvelt (71) Orangeburg (71) Monsey (57) and Tappan (49) than in Palisades (48)
2 NOT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE bull bull (except for rentals above) mdash the
median value of owner-occupied housshying is higher in Pomona ($245747) New City ($245474) Piermont ($240873) West Nyack ($237959) and Monsey (233182) than in Palisades ($231534)
3 NOT THE BEST EDUCATED mdash theper- centage of people with graduate or
professional degrees is higher in West Nyack (214) New City (210) Piermont (184) Suffern (180) Nyack (179) and Sparkill (172) than in Palisades (171)
4 NOT THE MOST PROFESSIONALmdashthe percentage of people with managerial or professional occupations is higher in New City (462) Monsey (427) West Nyack (426) Suffern (421) and Sparkill (421) than in Palisades (420)
Submitted by Jim Uleman who lives in Pearl River (also an average sort of place)
[Editors Note] All incomes given are foreshycast from 1980 census income tabulations and reported in 1989 dollars Other sources show different data on Palisades population the library reports that it serves 1294 children and adults the 1990 Census states that 1459 people live here (but includes Sparkill and Rockland Psychiatric) and the county Board of Elections lists 768 voters over the age of 18 Oh how uncertain is the nature of truth
THE OLD COUNTRY STORE
Dear 10964 I enjoyed Jocelyn DeCrescenzos reminisshycence of the Old Country Store My husshyband and I have lived in it since 1983 Although she felt that the expensive paint doesnt invite strangers and that the steps no longer lure the passer-by in fact there have been numerous visitors mdash strangers knocking at our door to ask if were open When we tell them its no longer a store they ask if they couldnt please just bring in their daughter or grandchild to give them a glimpse of their own childhood The marble-topped counter is still here as are the pot-bellied stove and all of those dim lights
The store is presently my husbands office mdash he produces a small magazine here so the candies and treasures are only memories however one passer-by hapshypened to share my passion for marble colshylecting the small colored balls mdash not MARshyBLE and we sat down and he examined my whole collection For Jocelyn and her daughtermdashI still have my Lucy dolls that I
purchased and cherished when 1 grew up in Rockland County Please do stop and visit sometimemdashwed be happy to share the memories with anyone who would like a look at The Old Country Store
Pat Lindgren Zipparo
PROTECTING PALISADES
Dear Editor For the edification of your readers I would like to tell you a little about the history of the fire department the John Paulding Engine Company which protects the lives and homes of our community
The fire company is named for the American militiaman and patriot John Paulding one of the astute captors of Major John Andre during the American Revolution Since its founding in 1901 the John Paulding Engine Company has provided continual sershyvice to the community
The members of the fire department are all volunteers trained in fighting fires rescue extraction of injured parties from vehicular accidents and all of the other skills needed by the modern-day firefighter
The fire company is governed by its own Board of Directors while the operational aspects are directed by the Fire Chief and his staff of officers The equipment used in this district is of the latest design specifishycally suited for the area covered It is kept in peak operational condition by the memshybers of the company
Currently the members of the Board are William Sullivan Broad Avenue Palisades
Chairman Thomas Carroll Home Tooke Road
Palisades Commissioner Robert Daly Sparkill Commissioner John Kopac Sparkill Commissioner Michael Yannazzone Sparkill Commissioner Dennis Leote Sparkill Treasurer
The Sparkill-Palisades Fire District enjoys the lowest fire tax rate in Orangetown while maintaining a first class volunteer fire department
Sincerely Thomas Carroll
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0trade^ The PIERMONT MARSH is a beautiful natural resource that is a great place to go exploring in the summer If you hike down the gas pipeline to the edge of the river (start from the Tallman Park entrance next to the Oasis snack bar) you can see two little islands with birch trees on them in the reeds that can be reached on foot at low tide If you want to explore by water you can rent a canoe from Bill and Kathy Herguths PARADISE BOATS in Piermont next door to the Kane playground on Sparkill Creek They are always open on
weekends but call ahead at 359-0073 during the week Year-round edushycational PUBLIC FIELD PROGRAMS in the marsh are offered by the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (758-5193) based in Annandale
The William 0 Schaefer Elementary School in Tappan is beginning a subshystantial recycling program which will involve items used at the school such as cans paper Styrofoam lunch trays and also donation of surplus food from the cafeterias to the hungry Special thanks to MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN and her son JOSH DRACO who spearheaded this effort
Welcome to new Palisades residents LESLEY VOGEL her husband SKIP PANETTIERE daughter HAYDEN age 6 and son JANSEN 1 Leslie is an acting coach and is very busy managing her childrens acting careers Skip is a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and
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contracted to the daytime soap One Life to Live and the prime time series It Aint Easy In her spare time she attends TZE Her little brother Jansen models for Wilhelmina
when he is not destroying the house
ANN BROOKE will be offering courses again in the fall on Putting Your Garden to Bed For informashytion call her at 358-7333
ANNIE GERARD will offer seminars this summer on Windows Tricks and Tips for the Computer Please call 359-3261 to sign up
MILBRY POLKS curriculum enrichshyment project Explorations An Educational Adventure will be feashytured on CBS Sunday Morning in June The project highlights the accomplishshyments of women explorers and feashytures material on the man-eating tigers of the Sunderbans swamps in Bangladesh
The Hudson House restaurant in Nyack is showing an exhibition of watercolors by Palisades artist ROBERT ADZEMA through the end of June
JANE HEROLD is back in business after having recovered from her broken arm I am throwing pots and have lit the
wood kiln Call her at 359-5421 to see her latest work
The PALISADES AIKIDO CLUB is offering a benefit seminar August 17 and 18 with Mary Heiny Sensei Mary is the highest ranked woman in Aikido in North America Proceeds from the seminar benefit Taklung Kogyu Manuscript Preservation Project in Tibet For more information call FRED LITTLE at 359-3261
Golf Writer HUBERT PEDROLI amp graphic designer MARY TIEGREEN have collaborated on a new book
A Passion for the Game of Golf to be published in June by Andrews and McMeel In addition Mary worked with author Jana Kolpen on an enchanting book The Secrets of Pistoulet published in May
Beauty consultant TRACY GARRISON has a new home service No time to pick up your cosmetic products She will pick them up (Arden Clinique Lancome etc) and bring them to Palisades for you Call her at 359-5812
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JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
CAPTION ABOUT DOSSIE
AND HER HELPER
DOSSIE NEEDS YOUR HELP HER HELPER N A N r
RECENTLY BROKE HER ARM AND DOSSIE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE MAINTEshyNANCE OF THE GARDEN IF ANYONE COULD CONshyTRIBUTE SOME TIMEr PLEASE CALL DOSSIE AT 3 5 9 - 3 2 0 7
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
University Press 136 South
Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
tures have also been published in
3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
Through the Electronic Looking
Glass this book which comes
with red-and-blue viewing glassshy
es can be obtained for $1995 by
calling Cygnus in Phoenix AZ at
602-279-7658
Greta Nettleton
MOSQUITO WING DETAIL
EYE OF SCIENCE
LEFT SYNTHETIC KIDNEY STONE
CRYSTAL BELOW ANTARCTIC
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Palisades Community Center is available full-time for
meetings parties classes and events
Contact Caroline Taple^ at
359-3533
during business Kours except Monday
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A POEM
Harrow
a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
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covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
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MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick
Simon Gerard is one of
Palisades self-taught
Renaissance men Art music
history food and education
are all subjects he has masshy
tered Simons most recent
professional engagement for his
recorder music was at The Awards
Luncheon of the English Speaking
Union in Manhattan Simons event parshy
ties are eagerly looked forward to as
much for conviviality as for the elegant
displays of his cooking skills Indeed
his professional catering services are
in demand from the Hamptons to
Palisades Parents take note he also
designs fantastical birthday parties
with themes such as a pirate ship or an
English castle Simon is a skilled carshy
penter an ability he makes use of for
building cabinets and shelving to house
his and others book collections as
well as for creating his glorious set
designs Currently Simon is working as
a set designer for the Actors Company
in Nyack He also has a detailed knowlshy
edge and appreciation of American and
European silver and of Oriental Rugs
Simon grew up in Palisades
attended local schoolsthen commuted
to Manhattan to attend Robert Louis
Stevenson High School He came back
to Palisades to graduate from his sister
Annies school Skunk Hollow This
school was an incredible educational
adventure where among other things
the students hired their own teachers
(It deserves an article of its own)
Instead of going to college I read the
Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to
cover I took notes on all that interestshy
ed me and followed up on those subshy
jects My education has never stopped
1 am always researching and reading
Indeed Simon has a fine library He is
a book collector specializing in history
art history and especially biography An
interest in history runs in the family
Simons great-grandfather was a
A R T I
medieval historian at Princeton and
Simon inherited part of that library
Simon is also a painter He studshy
ied with Lee Savage who is known both
for his realistic acrylics and for his
career as a teacher at important art
schools in Manhattan Both Simon and
Lee have been strongly influenced by
art history I went over and painted bull
with him in his studio for several
Instead of going to college I read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover I took notes on all that interested me and followed up on those subjects
years says Simon He advised me not
to go the academic route Do not go to
art school he said find your way intushy
itively and just paint So that is what I
did My painting follows the classic
Western painting tradition I consider
myself to be in the direct line from the
Greeks through the Renaissance to
today You can learn much from the Old
Masters What they taught is still releshy
vant to this day
Over the past several years Simon
has shown his paintings throughout the
New York area Last summer he particshy
ipated in the Matterhorns benefit This
fall some of his paintings will be shown
at a gallery in Soho
Simon also loves to teach Over
the years he has acquired a devoted
following for his popular after-school
art classes Simon introduces his
young students to a variety of media
including clay acrylics watercolor and
paper mache I like to use quality
material including special brushes I
think it is important for children to use
good materials so they develop an
appreciation for quality I dont want
children to be discouraged from art
because their materials are poor I also
feel children benefit from a nice dose
of art history My students range in age
from 5 to 131 have taught adults but
for now I am focusing on children My
summer art classes are more relaxed
than the winter classes
Simons art classes are taught in
his studio on Woods Road If anyone
has a budding Picasso living under
their roof they should give Simon a
call at 365-6312
MilbryPolk
PALISADES IS PRETTY ORDINARY
Some of us think that Palisades is pretty special and it is in many ways But they arent the ways that are measured by the Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics which is based on the latest available data (1990) from the Census Bureau and other governmental agencies According to this source 996 people live in Palisades in 337 households and relative to other communishyties in Rockland County Palisades is disshytinctive in the following ways 1 ELDERLY RESIDENTS We are one of the
three towns with the highest percentshyage of residents 85 years of age or older (20) This is not surprising since 130 people live at the Palisades Gardens convalescent home
2 HOUSING RENTS The highest percentshyage of monthly rentals over $750 (63) and the highest median monthly rental ($1000)
3 GROWTH IN THE 1 9 6 0 S mdash The highest percentage of housing units built from 1960-69 (412)
There may be other more obscure ways in which Palisades is distinctive But it is not distinctive in many of the ways that some believe Palisades is 1 NOT THE WEALTHIESTmdashaverage houseshy
hold income is higher in New City ($73436) Orangeburg ($73063) and Blauvelt ($72578) than in Palisades ($72315) Per capita income is higher in West Nyack ($28191) and New City ($26267) than in Palisades ($23985) The percentage of households with incomes over $150000 is greater in West Nyack (135) New City (97) Blauvelt (71) Orangeburg (71) Monsey (57) and Tappan (49) than in Palisades (48)
2 NOT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE bull bull (except for rentals above) mdash the
median value of owner-occupied housshying is higher in Pomona ($245747) New City ($245474) Piermont ($240873) West Nyack ($237959) and Monsey (233182) than in Palisades ($231534)
3 NOT THE BEST EDUCATED mdash theper- centage of people with graduate or
professional degrees is higher in West Nyack (214) New City (210) Piermont (184) Suffern (180) Nyack (179) and Sparkill (172) than in Palisades (171)
4 NOT THE MOST PROFESSIONALmdashthe percentage of people with managerial or professional occupations is higher in New City (462) Monsey (427) West Nyack (426) Suffern (421) and Sparkill (421) than in Palisades (420)
Submitted by Jim Uleman who lives in Pearl River (also an average sort of place)
[Editors Note] All incomes given are foreshycast from 1980 census income tabulations and reported in 1989 dollars Other sources show different data on Palisades population the library reports that it serves 1294 children and adults the 1990 Census states that 1459 people live here (but includes Sparkill and Rockland Psychiatric) and the county Board of Elections lists 768 voters over the age of 18 Oh how uncertain is the nature of truth
THE OLD COUNTRY STORE
Dear 10964 I enjoyed Jocelyn DeCrescenzos reminisshycence of the Old Country Store My husshyband and I have lived in it since 1983 Although she felt that the expensive paint doesnt invite strangers and that the steps no longer lure the passer-by in fact there have been numerous visitors mdash strangers knocking at our door to ask if were open When we tell them its no longer a store they ask if they couldnt please just bring in their daughter or grandchild to give them a glimpse of their own childhood The marble-topped counter is still here as are the pot-bellied stove and all of those dim lights
The store is presently my husbands office mdash he produces a small magazine here so the candies and treasures are only memories however one passer-by hapshypened to share my passion for marble colshylecting the small colored balls mdash not MARshyBLE and we sat down and he examined my whole collection For Jocelyn and her daughtermdashI still have my Lucy dolls that I
purchased and cherished when 1 grew up in Rockland County Please do stop and visit sometimemdashwed be happy to share the memories with anyone who would like a look at The Old Country Store
Pat Lindgren Zipparo
PROTECTING PALISADES
Dear Editor For the edification of your readers I would like to tell you a little about the history of the fire department the John Paulding Engine Company which protects the lives and homes of our community
The fire company is named for the American militiaman and patriot John Paulding one of the astute captors of Major John Andre during the American Revolution Since its founding in 1901 the John Paulding Engine Company has provided continual sershyvice to the community
The members of the fire department are all volunteers trained in fighting fires rescue extraction of injured parties from vehicular accidents and all of the other skills needed by the modern-day firefighter
The fire company is governed by its own Board of Directors while the operational aspects are directed by the Fire Chief and his staff of officers The equipment used in this district is of the latest design specifishycally suited for the area covered It is kept in peak operational condition by the memshybers of the company
Currently the members of the Board are William Sullivan Broad Avenue Palisades
Chairman Thomas Carroll Home Tooke Road
Palisades Commissioner Robert Daly Sparkill Commissioner John Kopac Sparkill Commissioner Michael Yannazzone Sparkill Commissioner Dennis Leote Sparkill Treasurer
The Sparkill-Palisades Fire District enjoys the lowest fire tax rate in Orangetown while maintaining a first class volunteer fire department
Sincerely Thomas Carroll
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0trade^ The PIERMONT MARSH is a beautiful natural resource that is a great place to go exploring in the summer If you hike down the gas pipeline to the edge of the river (start from the Tallman Park entrance next to the Oasis snack bar) you can see two little islands with birch trees on them in the reeds that can be reached on foot at low tide If you want to explore by water you can rent a canoe from Bill and Kathy Herguths PARADISE BOATS in Piermont next door to the Kane playground on Sparkill Creek They are always open on
weekends but call ahead at 359-0073 during the week Year-round edushycational PUBLIC FIELD PROGRAMS in the marsh are offered by the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (758-5193) based in Annandale
The William 0 Schaefer Elementary School in Tappan is beginning a subshystantial recycling program which will involve items used at the school such as cans paper Styrofoam lunch trays and also donation of surplus food from the cafeterias to the hungry Special thanks to MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN and her son JOSH DRACO who spearheaded this effort
Welcome to new Palisades residents LESLEY VOGEL her husband SKIP PANETTIERE daughter HAYDEN age 6 and son JANSEN 1 Leslie is an acting coach and is very busy managing her childrens acting careers Skip is a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and
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also manages his own business JampH Wood Flooring Hayden is currently
contracted to the daytime soap One Life to Live and the prime time series It Aint Easy In her spare time she attends TZE Her little brother Jansen models for Wilhelmina
when he is not destroying the house
ANN BROOKE will be offering courses again in the fall on Putting Your Garden to Bed For informashytion call her at 358-7333
ANNIE GERARD will offer seminars this summer on Windows Tricks and Tips for the Computer Please call 359-3261 to sign up
MILBRY POLKS curriculum enrichshyment project Explorations An Educational Adventure will be feashytured on CBS Sunday Morning in June The project highlights the accomplishshyments of women explorers and feashytures material on the man-eating tigers of the Sunderbans swamps in Bangladesh
The Hudson House restaurant in Nyack is showing an exhibition of watercolors by Palisades artist ROBERT ADZEMA through the end of June
JANE HEROLD is back in business after having recovered from her broken arm I am throwing pots and have lit the
wood kiln Call her at 359-5421 to see her latest work
The PALISADES AIKIDO CLUB is offering a benefit seminar August 17 and 18 with Mary Heiny Sensei Mary is the highest ranked woman in Aikido in North America Proceeds from the seminar benefit Taklung Kogyu Manuscript Preservation Project in Tibet For more information call FRED LITTLE at 359-3261
Golf Writer HUBERT PEDROLI amp graphic designer MARY TIEGREEN have collaborated on a new book
A Passion for the Game of Golf to be published in June by Andrews and McMeel In addition Mary worked with author Jana Kolpen on an enchanting book The Secrets of Pistoulet published in May
Beauty consultant TRACY GARRISON has a new home service No time to pick up your cosmetic products She will pick them up (Arden Clinique Lancome etc) and bring them to Palisades for you Call her at 359-5812
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JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
CAPTION ABOUT DOSSIE
AND HER HELPER
DOSSIE NEEDS YOUR HELP HER HELPER N A N r
RECENTLY BROKE HER ARM AND DOSSIE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE MAINTEshyNANCE OF THE GARDEN IF ANYONE COULD CONshyTRIBUTE SOME TIMEr PLEASE CALL DOSSIE AT 3 5 9 - 3 2 0 7
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
University Press 136 South
Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
tures have also been published in
3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
Through the Electronic Looking
Glass this book which comes
with red-and-blue viewing glassshy
es can be obtained for $1995 by
calling Cygnus in Phoenix AZ at
602-279-7658
Greta Nettleton
MOSQUITO WING DETAIL
EYE OF SCIENCE
LEFT SYNTHETIC KIDNEY STONE
CRYSTAL BELOW ANTARCTIC
DIATOM
LEFT PATTERN MADE BY TUBEWORMS FROM
BA]A CALIFORNIA- ABOVE DANDELION SEEDS
FROM PALISADES NY
ARTfryKIDS
5
Syike by SwmampW Grew age ~j
v^1TdVo^se byiokby^8 10
Palisades Community Center is available full-time for
meetings parties classes and events
Contact Caroline Taple^ at
359-3533
during business Kours except Monday
Yom Com munit needsy^rZ^r
uPport nciai
A POEM
Harrow
a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
SBmyOwraquoSdaJ6-Jolaquoib A^JtepatthcniSataiKn(ampgJttVira
covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
T H E DRAWING S ILLUSTRATING T H I S ARTIshy
C L E WERE CREATED BY ANOTHER
P A L I S A D E S RESIDENT G E O R G E Z I P P A R O
W H O ORIGINALLY D R E W THEM FOR
L Y D A S PUBLICITY BROCHURES
CLASSIFIED ADS PERSONAL ADS
Homeschooling family needs a math tutor for a bright seventh grader Please call 365-0024
Palisades family with two children needs a regular babysitter for Saturday nights throughout the summer and beyond Mature responsible teenager or adult preferred Please call 365-1563
HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
Daisy
Maxine and Daisy relax after | a fun day of playing P raquolaquo it ltbull U 4 ft M l
From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
P A S T R I E S ~
Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
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Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
188 Mm Strlaquolaquot I Mybck NY 353-837 At TU Kyk m Nyfcck
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
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249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
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(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
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PALISADES IS PRETTY ORDINARY
Some of us think that Palisades is pretty special and it is in many ways But they arent the ways that are measured by the Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics which is based on the latest available data (1990) from the Census Bureau and other governmental agencies According to this source 996 people live in Palisades in 337 households and relative to other communishyties in Rockland County Palisades is disshytinctive in the following ways 1 ELDERLY RESIDENTS We are one of the
three towns with the highest percentshyage of residents 85 years of age or older (20) This is not surprising since 130 people live at the Palisades Gardens convalescent home
2 HOUSING RENTS The highest percentshyage of monthly rentals over $750 (63) and the highest median monthly rental ($1000)
3 GROWTH IN THE 1 9 6 0 S mdash The highest percentage of housing units built from 1960-69 (412)
There may be other more obscure ways in which Palisades is distinctive But it is not distinctive in many of the ways that some believe Palisades is 1 NOT THE WEALTHIESTmdashaverage houseshy
hold income is higher in New City ($73436) Orangeburg ($73063) and Blauvelt ($72578) than in Palisades ($72315) Per capita income is higher in West Nyack ($28191) and New City ($26267) than in Palisades ($23985) The percentage of households with incomes over $150000 is greater in West Nyack (135) New City (97) Blauvelt (71) Orangeburg (71) Monsey (57) and Tappan (49) than in Palisades (48)
2 NOT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE bull bull (except for rentals above) mdash the
median value of owner-occupied housshying is higher in Pomona ($245747) New City ($245474) Piermont ($240873) West Nyack ($237959) and Monsey (233182) than in Palisades ($231534)
3 NOT THE BEST EDUCATED mdash theper- centage of people with graduate or
professional degrees is higher in West Nyack (214) New City (210) Piermont (184) Suffern (180) Nyack (179) and Sparkill (172) than in Palisades (171)
4 NOT THE MOST PROFESSIONALmdashthe percentage of people with managerial or professional occupations is higher in New City (462) Monsey (427) West Nyack (426) Suffern (421) and Sparkill (421) than in Palisades (420)
Submitted by Jim Uleman who lives in Pearl River (also an average sort of place)
[Editors Note] All incomes given are foreshycast from 1980 census income tabulations and reported in 1989 dollars Other sources show different data on Palisades population the library reports that it serves 1294 children and adults the 1990 Census states that 1459 people live here (but includes Sparkill and Rockland Psychiatric) and the county Board of Elections lists 768 voters over the age of 18 Oh how uncertain is the nature of truth
THE OLD COUNTRY STORE
Dear 10964 I enjoyed Jocelyn DeCrescenzos reminisshycence of the Old Country Store My husshyband and I have lived in it since 1983 Although she felt that the expensive paint doesnt invite strangers and that the steps no longer lure the passer-by in fact there have been numerous visitors mdash strangers knocking at our door to ask if were open When we tell them its no longer a store they ask if they couldnt please just bring in their daughter or grandchild to give them a glimpse of their own childhood The marble-topped counter is still here as are the pot-bellied stove and all of those dim lights
The store is presently my husbands office mdash he produces a small magazine here so the candies and treasures are only memories however one passer-by hapshypened to share my passion for marble colshylecting the small colored balls mdash not MARshyBLE and we sat down and he examined my whole collection For Jocelyn and her daughtermdashI still have my Lucy dolls that I
purchased and cherished when 1 grew up in Rockland County Please do stop and visit sometimemdashwed be happy to share the memories with anyone who would like a look at The Old Country Store
Pat Lindgren Zipparo
PROTECTING PALISADES
Dear Editor For the edification of your readers I would like to tell you a little about the history of the fire department the John Paulding Engine Company which protects the lives and homes of our community
The fire company is named for the American militiaman and patriot John Paulding one of the astute captors of Major John Andre during the American Revolution Since its founding in 1901 the John Paulding Engine Company has provided continual sershyvice to the community
The members of the fire department are all volunteers trained in fighting fires rescue extraction of injured parties from vehicular accidents and all of the other skills needed by the modern-day firefighter
The fire company is governed by its own Board of Directors while the operational aspects are directed by the Fire Chief and his staff of officers The equipment used in this district is of the latest design specifishycally suited for the area covered It is kept in peak operational condition by the memshybers of the company
Currently the members of the Board are William Sullivan Broad Avenue Palisades
Chairman Thomas Carroll Home Tooke Road
Palisades Commissioner Robert Daly Sparkill Commissioner John Kopac Sparkill Commissioner Michael Yannazzone Sparkill Commissioner Dennis Leote Sparkill Treasurer
The Sparkill-Palisades Fire District enjoys the lowest fire tax rate in Orangetown while maintaining a first class volunteer fire department
Sincerely Thomas Carroll
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0trade^ The PIERMONT MARSH is a beautiful natural resource that is a great place to go exploring in the summer If you hike down the gas pipeline to the edge of the river (start from the Tallman Park entrance next to the Oasis snack bar) you can see two little islands with birch trees on them in the reeds that can be reached on foot at low tide If you want to explore by water you can rent a canoe from Bill and Kathy Herguths PARADISE BOATS in Piermont next door to the Kane playground on Sparkill Creek They are always open on
weekends but call ahead at 359-0073 during the week Year-round edushycational PUBLIC FIELD PROGRAMS in the marsh are offered by the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (758-5193) based in Annandale
The William 0 Schaefer Elementary School in Tappan is beginning a subshystantial recycling program which will involve items used at the school such as cans paper Styrofoam lunch trays and also donation of surplus food from the cafeterias to the hungry Special thanks to MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN and her son JOSH DRACO who spearheaded this effort
Welcome to new Palisades residents LESLEY VOGEL her husband SKIP PANETTIERE daughter HAYDEN age 6 and son JANSEN 1 Leslie is an acting coach and is very busy managing her childrens acting careers Skip is a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and
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also manages his own business JampH Wood Flooring Hayden is currently
contracted to the daytime soap One Life to Live and the prime time series It Aint Easy In her spare time she attends TZE Her little brother Jansen models for Wilhelmina
when he is not destroying the house
ANN BROOKE will be offering courses again in the fall on Putting Your Garden to Bed For informashytion call her at 358-7333
ANNIE GERARD will offer seminars this summer on Windows Tricks and Tips for the Computer Please call 359-3261 to sign up
MILBRY POLKS curriculum enrichshyment project Explorations An Educational Adventure will be feashytured on CBS Sunday Morning in June The project highlights the accomplishshyments of women explorers and feashytures material on the man-eating tigers of the Sunderbans swamps in Bangladesh
The Hudson House restaurant in Nyack is showing an exhibition of watercolors by Palisades artist ROBERT ADZEMA through the end of June
JANE HEROLD is back in business after having recovered from her broken arm I am throwing pots and have lit the
wood kiln Call her at 359-5421 to see her latest work
The PALISADES AIKIDO CLUB is offering a benefit seminar August 17 and 18 with Mary Heiny Sensei Mary is the highest ranked woman in Aikido in North America Proceeds from the seminar benefit Taklung Kogyu Manuscript Preservation Project in Tibet For more information call FRED LITTLE at 359-3261
Golf Writer HUBERT PEDROLI amp graphic designer MARY TIEGREEN have collaborated on a new book
A Passion for the Game of Golf to be published in June by Andrews and McMeel In addition Mary worked with author Jana Kolpen on an enchanting book The Secrets of Pistoulet published in May
Beauty consultant TRACY GARRISON has a new home service No time to pick up your cosmetic products She will pick them up (Arden Clinique Lancome etc) and bring them to Palisades for you Call her at 359-5812
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JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
CAPTION ABOUT DOSSIE
AND HER HELPER
DOSSIE NEEDS YOUR HELP HER HELPER N A N r
RECENTLY BROKE HER ARM AND DOSSIE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE MAINTEshyNANCE OF THE GARDEN IF ANYONE COULD CONshyTRIBUTE SOME TIMEr PLEASE CALL DOSSIE AT 3 5 9 - 3 2 0 7
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
University Press 136 South
Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
tures have also been published in
3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
Through the Electronic Looking
Glass this book which comes
with red-and-blue viewing glassshy
es can be obtained for $1995 by
calling Cygnus in Phoenix AZ at
602-279-7658
Greta Nettleton
MOSQUITO WING DETAIL
EYE OF SCIENCE
LEFT SYNTHETIC KIDNEY STONE
CRYSTAL BELOW ANTARCTIC
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Palisades Community Center is available full-time for
meetings parties classes and events
Contact Caroline Taple^ at
359-3533
during business Kours except Monday
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A POEM
Harrow
a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
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covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
T H E DRAWING S ILLUSTRATING T H I S ARTIshy
C L E WERE CREATED BY ANOTHER
P A L I S A D E S RESIDENT G E O R G E Z I P P A R O
W H O ORIGINALLY D R E W THEM FOR
L Y D A S PUBLICITY BROCHURES
CLASSIFIED ADS PERSONAL ADS
Homeschooling family needs a math tutor for a bright seventh grader Please call 365-0024
Palisades family with two children needs a regular babysitter for Saturday nights throughout the summer and beyond Mature responsible teenager or adult preferred Please call 365-1563
HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
Daisy
Maxine and Daisy relax after | a fun day of playing P raquolaquo it ltbull U 4 ft M l
From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
P A S T R I E S ~
Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
We ship Nationwide Call 1-800-537-7791 for brochure
Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
188 Mm Strlaquolaquot I Mybck NY 353-837 At TU Kyk m Nyfcck
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
pound amp S DCozUt and ltBwukn Skofr
249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
Lic2amp64950
(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick
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0trade^ The PIERMONT MARSH is a beautiful natural resource that is a great place to go exploring in the summer If you hike down the gas pipeline to the edge of the river (start from the Tallman Park entrance next to the Oasis snack bar) you can see two little islands with birch trees on them in the reeds that can be reached on foot at low tide If you want to explore by water you can rent a canoe from Bill and Kathy Herguths PARADISE BOATS in Piermont next door to the Kane playground on Sparkill Creek They are always open on
weekends but call ahead at 359-0073 during the week Year-round edushycational PUBLIC FIELD PROGRAMS in the marsh are offered by the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (758-5193) based in Annandale
The William 0 Schaefer Elementary School in Tappan is beginning a subshystantial recycling program which will involve items used at the school such as cans paper Styrofoam lunch trays and also donation of surplus food from the cafeterias to the hungry Special thanks to MARJORIE GOLDSTEIN and her son JOSH DRACO who spearheaded this effort
Welcome to new Palisades residents LESLEY VOGEL her husband SKIP PANETTIERE daughter HAYDEN age 6 and son JANSEN 1 Leslie is an acting coach and is very busy managing her childrens acting careers Skip is a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and
pease 0964toow
in be
ont^ovetdegT Octobenssue
U
also manages his own business JampH Wood Flooring Hayden is currently
contracted to the daytime soap One Life to Live and the prime time series It Aint Easy In her spare time she attends TZE Her little brother Jansen models for Wilhelmina
when he is not destroying the house
ANN BROOKE will be offering courses again in the fall on Putting Your Garden to Bed For informashytion call her at 358-7333
ANNIE GERARD will offer seminars this summer on Windows Tricks and Tips for the Computer Please call 359-3261 to sign up
MILBRY POLKS curriculum enrichshyment project Explorations An Educational Adventure will be feashytured on CBS Sunday Morning in June The project highlights the accomplishshyments of women explorers and feashytures material on the man-eating tigers of the Sunderbans swamps in Bangladesh
The Hudson House restaurant in Nyack is showing an exhibition of watercolors by Palisades artist ROBERT ADZEMA through the end of June
JANE HEROLD is back in business after having recovered from her broken arm I am throwing pots and have lit the
wood kiln Call her at 359-5421 to see her latest work
The PALISADES AIKIDO CLUB is offering a benefit seminar August 17 and 18 with Mary Heiny Sensei Mary is the highest ranked woman in Aikido in North America Proceeds from the seminar benefit Taklung Kogyu Manuscript Preservation Project in Tibet For more information call FRED LITTLE at 359-3261
Golf Writer HUBERT PEDROLI amp graphic designer MARY TIEGREEN have collaborated on a new book
A Passion for the Game of Golf to be published in June by Andrews and McMeel In addition Mary worked with author Jana Kolpen on an enchanting book The Secrets of Pistoulet published in May
Beauty consultant TRACY GARRISON has a new home service No time to pick up your cosmetic products She will pick them up (Arden Clinique Lancome etc) and bring them to Palisades for you Call her at 359-5812
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JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
CAPTION ABOUT DOSSIE
AND HER HELPER
DOSSIE NEEDS YOUR HELP HER HELPER N A N r
RECENTLY BROKE HER ARM AND DOSSIE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE MAINTEshyNANCE OF THE GARDEN IF ANYONE COULD CONshyTRIBUTE SOME TIMEr PLEASE CALL DOSSIE AT 3 5 9 - 3 2 0 7
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
University Press 136 South
Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
tures have also been published in
3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
Through the Electronic Looking
Glass this book which comes
with red-and-blue viewing glassshy
es can be obtained for $1995 by
calling Cygnus in Phoenix AZ at
602-279-7658
Greta Nettleton
MOSQUITO WING DETAIL
EYE OF SCIENCE
LEFT SYNTHETIC KIDNEY STONE
CRYSTAL BELOW ANTARCTIC
DIATOM
LEFT PATTERN MADE BY TUBEWORMS FROM
BA]A CALIFORNIA- ABOVE DANDELION SEEDS
FROM PALISADES NY
ARTfryKIDS
5
Syike by SwmampW Grew age ~j
v^1TdVo^se byiokby^8 10
Palisades Community Center is available full-time for
meetings parties classes and events
Contact Caroline Taple^ at
359-3533
during business Kours except Monday
Yom Com munit needsy^rZ^r
uPport nciai
A POEM
Harrow
a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
SBmyOwraquoSdaJ6-Jolaquoib A^JtepatthcniSataiKn(ampgJttVira
covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
T H E DRAWING S ILLUSTRATING T H I S ARTIshy
C L E WERE CREATED BY ANOTHER
P A L I S A D E S RESIDENT G E O R G E Z I P P A R O
W H O ORIGINALLY D R E W THEM FOR
L Y D A S PUBLICITY BROCHURES
CLASSIFIED ADS PERSONAL ADS
Homeschooling family needs a math tutor for a bright seventh grader Please call 365-0024
Palisades family with two children needs a regular babysitter for Saturday nights throughout the summer and beyond Mature responsible teenager or adult preferred Please call 365-1563
HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
Daisy
Maxine and Daisy relax after | a fun day of playing P raquolaquo it ltbull U 4 ft M l
From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
P A S T R I E S ~
Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
We ship Nationwide Call 1-800-537-7791 for brochure
Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
188 Mm Strlaquolaquot I Mybck NY 353-837 At TU Kyk m Nyfcck
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
pound amp S DCozUt and ltBwukn Skofr
249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
Lic2amp64950
(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick
JUNE GRADUATES
COLLEGE GRADUATES
Angela Fallon graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University with a B A in English and Sociology in May
Irish OPrey graduated Cum Laude in May from the University of California at Hastings College of Law She will be a clerk for Judge Melvin Brunetti US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit next year
Kathrin Elevitch is graduating from Barnard in May with a BA in Womens StudiesPerformance Art with a minor in MusicVoice
Margaret A Umbrino will receive an MS in School Administration and Supervision from Iona College in Rockland
Kate Tapley is graduating from Columbia Law School
Kimberly Warner is graduating from Allentown College in Pennsylvania in May Kimberly will be among the dancers performshying at the Fringe Festival in Atlanta on June 14th and 15th in conjunction with the Summer Olympics
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Seven students from Palisades will be gradushyating from Tappan Zee High School this June They are Eunice Chung Reba Eappen Christina Ortiz Jessica Ruiz Alex Santiago Terence Sheehan and Peter Marino Peter plans to attend SUNY New Paltz next year majoring in computer scishyence College plans of the other students were not yet available at the time we went to press in April
In case we missed some names (please let us know next timemdashwe dont have ESP) congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 1996 and best of luck in the future
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
THE TRIANGLE GARDEN BY THE POST OFFICE
Mi any people who stop at the post office during the spring and summer are pleasantly surprised by the garden being carefully tended behind the drive-by mailbox
From time to time people stop to chat with the lady with the wheelbarrow who seems to have a lot to do with these flowers and she gets a lot of well-deserved compliments For those who dont already know her the hard-workshying gardener is Dossie Thayer whose original idea it was to create the garden She gets a lot of help from her husband Reg and from Nan Michelmore The late Sandy McAllister was also an enthusiasshytic contributor of time effort and plants
Some people think that I get paid for this says Dossie but in truth her work is an entirely spontaneous contrishybution to the betterment of downtown Palisades About eight years ago Dossie and Reg were returning from a walk when they realized that they were tired of constantly picking up the trash in the woods by the post office They figured that if they put in a wildflower garden in the space the littering might stop They were rightmdashthe litter stopped but it has hardly reduced the work that they have devoted to the areas maintenance
Three years ago the garden achieved its greatest beauty pro- ducing a bank of glorious color based on clumps of semi-wildflow-
ers including bee balm daisies and coneflowers that came from Dossies garden and other places However in 1994 the Spring Valley Water Company completely destroyed the garden in an aftershynoon while replacing a valve on Oak Tree Rd and although they made a stab at restitution providing $200 and some help from the Matterhorn Nursery the garden still has not recovered its former glory That was a drop in the bucket compared to how many plants we lost says Dossie not to mention the years of work and growing time Last summers drought and later fierce snowstorms also wreaked havoc on the spot which is where the snowplows pushed tons of salty snow into huge piles during the winter Dossie notes that carrying water to the garden during the drought was really a chore and if the water company were to provide an outlet nearby they might really make up for their earlier destruction United Water are you listeningmdashGreta Nettleton
CAPTION ABOUT DOSSIE
AND HER HELPER
DOSSIE NEEDS YOUR HELP HER HELPER N A N r
RECENTLY BROKE HER ARM AND DOSSIE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE MAINTEshyNANCE OF THE GARDEN IF ANYONE COULD CONshyTRIBUTE SOME TIMEr PLEASE CALL DOSSIE AT 3 5 9 - 3 2 0 7
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
University Press 136 South
Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
tures have also been published in
3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
Through the Electronic Looking
Glass this book which comes
with red-and-blue viewing glassshy
es can be obtained for $1995 by
calling Cygnus in Phoenix AZ at
602-279-7658
Greta Nettleton
MOSQUITO WING DETAIL
EYE OF SCIENCE
LEFT SYNTHETIC KIDNEY STONE
CRYSTAL BELOW ANTARCTIC
DIATOM
LEFT PATTERN MADE BY TUBEWORMS FROM
BA]A CALIFORNIA- ABOVE DANDELION SEEDS
FROM PALISADES NY
ARTfryKIDS
5
Syike by SwmampW Grew age ~j
v^1TdVo^se byiokby^8 10
Palisades Community Center is available full-time for
meetings parties classes and events
Contact Caroline Taple^ at
359-3533
during business Kours except Monday
Yom Com munit needsy^rZ^r
uPport nciai
A POEM
Harrow
a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
SBmyOwraquoSdaJ6-Jolaquoib A^JtepatthcniSataiKn(ampgJttVira
covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
T H E DRAWING S ILLUSTRATING T H I S ARTIshy
C L E WERE CREATED BY ANOTHER
P A L I S A D E S RESIDENT G E O R G E Z I P P A R O
W H O ORIGINALLY D R E W THEM FOR
L Y D A S PUBLICITY BROCHURES
CLASSIFIED ADS PERSONAL ADS
Homeschooling family needs a math tutor for a bright seventh grader Please call 365-0024
Palisades family with two children needs a regular babysitter for Saturday nights throughout the summer and beyond Mature responsible teenager or adult preferred Please call 365-1563
HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
Daisy
Maxine and Daisy relax after | a fun day of playing P raquolaquo it ltbull U 4 ft M l
From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
P A S T R I E S ~
Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
We ship Nationwide Call 1-800-537-7791 for brochure
Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
188 Mm Strlaquolaquot I Mybck NY 353-837 At TU Kyk m Nyfcck
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
pound amp S DCozUt and ltBwukn Skofr
249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
Lic2amp64950
(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick
MOTES OF BEAUTY IN TH
About two years ago Dee
Breger who manages the
scanning electron microshy
scope lab at Lamont-
Doherty received a call
from Columbia University
Press They were interested in
putting together a book using
photographs she has collected
from many sources during years
of research activities that would
emphasize the aesthetic nature
of the images as well as their scishy
entific usefulness The resulting
book Journeys in Microspace
contains almost 200 pictures that
reveal the elegant complexity of
the most minute forms in nature
together with informed descripshy
tions by scientists whose
research specimens were used
to create them The book is availshy
able for $3950 from Columbia
University Press 136 South
Broadway Irvington NY 10533
800-944-8648 Thirty of the picshy
tures have also been published in
3-D by Cygnus Graphic in
Through the Electronic Looking
Glass this book which comes
with red-and-blue viewing glassshy
es can be obtained for $1995 by
calling Cygnus in Phoenix AZ at
602-279-7658
Greta Nettleton
MOSQUITO WING DETAIL
EYE OF SCIENCE
LEFT SYNTHETIC KIDNEY STONE
CRYSTAL BELOW ANTARCTIC
DIATOM
LEFT PATTERN MADE BY TUBEWORMS FROM
BA]A CALIFORNIA- ABOVE DANDELION SEEDS
FROM PALISADES NY
ARTfryKIDS
5
Syike by SwmampW Grew age ~j
v^1TdVo^se byiokby^8 10
Palisades Community Center is available full-time for
meetings parties classes and events
Contact Caroline Taple^ at
359-3533
during business Kours except Monday
Yom Com munit needsy^rZ^r
uPport nciai
A POEM
Harrow
a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
SBmyOwraquoSdaJ6-Jolaquoib A^JtepatthcniSataiKn(ampgJttVira
covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
T H E DRAWING S ILLUSTRATING T H I S ARTIshy
C L E WERE CREATED BY ANOTHER
P A L I S A D E S RESIDENT G E O R G E Z I P P A R O
W H O ORIGINALLY D R E W THEM FOR
L Y D A S PUBLICITY BROCHURES
CLASSIFIED ADS PERSONAL ADS
Homeschooling family needs a math tutor for a bright seventh grader Please call 365-0024
Palisades family with two children needs a regular babysitter for Saturday nights throughout the summer and beyond Mature responsible teenager or adult preferred Please call 365-1563
HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
Daisy
Maxine and Daisy relax after | a fun day of playing P raquolaquo it ltbull U 4 ft M l
From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
P A S T R I E S ~
Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
We ship Nationwide Call 1-800-537-7791 for brochure
Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
188 Mm Strlaquolaquot I Mybck NY 353-837 At TU Kyk m Nyfcck
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
pound amp S DCozUt and ltBwukn Skofr
249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
Lic2amp64950
(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick
EYE OF SCIENCE
LEFT SYNTHETIC KIDNEY STONE
CRYSTAL BELOW ANTARCTIC
DIATOM
LEFT PATTERN MADE BY TUBEWORMS FROM
BA]A CALIFORNIA- ABOVE DANDELION SEEDS
FROM PALISADES NY
ARTfryKIDS
5
Syike by SwmampW Grew age ~j
v^1TdVo^se byiokby^8 10
Palisades Community Center is available full-time for
meetings parties classes and events
Contact Caroline Taple^ at
359-3533
during business Kours except Monday
Yom Com munit needsy^rZ^r
uPport nciai
A POEM
Harrow
a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
SBmyOwraquoSdaJ6-Jolaquoib A^JtepatthcniSataiKn(ampgJttVira
covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
T H E DRAWING S ILLUSTRATING T H I S ARTIshy
C L E WERE CREATED BY ANOTHER
P A L I S A D E S RESIDENT G E O R G E Z I P P A R O
W H O ORIGINALLY D R E W THEM FOR
L Y D A S PUBLICITY BROCHURES
CLASSIFIED ADS PERSONAL ADS
Homeschooling family needs a math tutor for a bright seventh grader Please call 365-0024
Palisades family with two children needs a regular babysitter for Saturday nights throughout the summer and beyond Mature responsible teenager or adult preferred Please call 365-1563
HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
Daisy
Maxine and Daisy relax after | a fun day of playing P raquolaquo it ltbull U 4 ft M l
From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
P A S T R I E S ~
Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
We ship Nationwide Call 1-800-537-7791 for brochure
Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
188 Mm Strlaquolaquot I Mybck NY 353-837 At TU Kyk m Nyfcck
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
pound amp S DCozUt and ltBwukn Skofr
249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
Lic2amp64950
(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick
ARTfryKIDS
5
Syike by SwmampW Grew age ~j
v^1TdVo^se byiokby^8 10
Palisades Community Center is available full-time for
meetings parties classes and events
Contact Caroline Taple^ at
359-3533
during business Kours except Monday
Yom Com munit needsy^rZ^r
uPport nciai
A POEM
Harrow
a drop of patience defused an absent past and sliced tempers resonate in the future
a piece of peace splintered off laughter midst the ruins - destruction -a name carved on a tombstone praising an epic deed
a new era was yearned no more insurrection obedience alone the path to abundance
obedience alone a lone affluence
Kevork K Kalayjian
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
SBmyOwraquoSdaJ6-Jolaquoib A^JtepatthcniSataiKn(ampgJttVira
covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
T H E DRAWING S ILLUSTRATING T H I S ARTIshy
C L E WERE CREATED BY ANOTHER
P A L I S A D E S RESIDENT G E O R G E Z I P P A R O
W H O ORIGINALLY D R E W THEM FOR
L Y D A S PUBLICITY BROCHURES
CLASSIFIED ADS PERSONAL ADS
Homeschooling family needs a math tutor for a bright seventh grader Please call 365-0024
Palisades family with two children needs a regular babysitter for Saturday nights throughout the summer and beyond Mature responsible teenager or adult preferred Please call 365-1563
HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
Daisy
Maxine and Daisy relax after | a fun day of playing P raquolaquo it ltbull U 4 ft M l
From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
P A S T R I E S ~
Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
We ship Nationwide Call 1-800-537-7791 for brochure
Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
188 Mm Strlaquolaquot I Mybck NY 353-837 At TU Kyk m Nyfcck
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
pound amp S DCozUt and ltBwukn Skofr
249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
Lic2amp64950
(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick
Dalisades is full of delightful surshyprises One of the latest to come to the attention of 10964 is resident Lillian Langseth Aided by a staff of six local women she writes and produces
four high quality national newsletters for the health professional From here in Palisades her practical and informashytive publications inform tens of thoushysands of people across the country
Lillian and her husband Marcus are a two-scientist couple They moved to Palisades in 1980 from Pearl River in order to be closer to Lamonts Earth Observatory where Marcus works as a research scientist in geoshyphysics Lillian began her career as a research bioloshygist eventually receiving her docshytorate in Public Health from Columbia University Her career as a researcher and technical writer in health sciences has taken her to New York University Ciba-Geigy Columbia University and other centers of research
In 1982 Lillian founded her own company Lyda Associates I started with $2000 a butcher block table and two file cabinets I didnt even have a desk or a typewriter Her first publishycation Nutrition Research Newsletter
is concerned with the role of diet in health and disease and is published 10 times a year Circulation has gone from 6 subscribers to 1000 subshyscribers
Building on this success in 1990 she began The Food Safety Notebook
This is a monthly professional update on issues in food safety she explains written in cooperation with leading food-safety experts from 14 universishyties it [also] includes abstracts from over 425 journals The newsletter
LILLIAN LANSETH
NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES EXPERT
SBmyOwraquoSdaJ6-Jolaquoib A^JtepatthcniSataiKn(ampgJttVira
covers topics such as allergies toxicolshyogy microbiology and bio-technology and herbs plants and alternative medishycines
Her other two publications
Antioxidant Vitamins
and Vitamin
Nutrition Research
Newsletter are both underwritten by Hoffman-LaRoche and are free These technical journals
review the latest topics in vitamin research and have large circulations the former reaching 50000 readers four times a year and the latter having 10000 subscribers In addition to the newsletters Lyda Associates Inc proshyvides technical writing services for numerous clients in the health sciences and other related areas
The daughter of Russian immishygrants Lillian received a BS in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University During her years of research at NYU working towards her masters degree Lillian got her first real taste of writshying co-authoring 15 medical articles with her professor Benjamin Van Duuren She found him to be a wonshyderful mentor Why I do science the way I do is because of him He taught me to be careful and to have integrity Whether doing science or writing he
set a high standard Now besides publishing the four
newsletters Lillian writes articles for numerous other professional journals and books and is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University School of Public Health teaching coursshyes on food safety and nutrition She freshyquently lectures has appeared on numerous public health and scientific panels and is active in the professional societies related to her field
What does the future hold We plan to offer on-line services to subshyscribers and I would like to do more newsletter consulting Anyone with a background in health writing or publishshying can send me a resume for our files
for future projects Palisades is a wonderful place for me to be There are so many talshyented people here
Anyone wishing to subscribe to Lillian
Langseths newsletters or who would like to work at Lyda should contact the office at 359-8282 (tel) 359-1229 (fax) or mail at Lyda Associates Inc PO Box 700 Palisades NY 10964
MilbryPolk
T H E DRAWING S ILLUSTRATING T H I S ARTIshy
C L E WERE CREATED BY ANOTHER
P A L I S A D E S RESIDENT G E O R G E Z I P P A R O
W H O ORIGINALLY D R E W THEM FOR
L Y D A S PUBLICITY BROCHURES
CLASSIFIED ADS PERSONAL ADS
Homeschooling family needs a math tutor for a bright seventh grader Please call 365-0024
Palisades family with two children needs a regular babysitter for Saturday nights throughout the summer and beyond Mature responsible teenager or adult preferred Please call 365-1563
HEY GOLDEN RETRIEVERS Come visit me on the World Wide Web My Web address is httpZAvwwrahulnethredIusg-page28html
Daisy
Maxine and Daisy relax after | a fun day of playing P raquolaquo it ltbull U 4 ft M l
From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
P A S T R I E S ~
Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
We ship Nationwide Call 1-800-537-7791 for brochure
Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
188 Mm Strlaquolaquot I Mybck NY 353-837 At TU Kyk m Nyfcck
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
pound amp S DCozUt and ltBwukn Skofr
249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
Lic2amp64950
(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
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The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
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From the Historical Society of Rockland County
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing by Isabelle K Savelle
An intimate account of a remarkable family in a remarkable place and the galaxy of writers artists architects theatre people and other gifted friends they gathered about them 206 pages paperback $1075 (tax included) plus-
$3 for postage and handling
To order write or call the Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd New City NY 10956 (914-634-9629)
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Outstanding Award Winning Desserts
SPRINGTIME TREATS Award Winning Tarts
Hornless Chocolate Truffle Cakes Cookies Brownies Candy
We ship Nationwide Call 1-800-537-7791 for brochure
Stop by our newly redecorated Pastry Cafe for Cappuccino and dessert
Bittersweet Pastry Cafe 3gteurosect$ 460HermontAve
HermontNX 10968 (914) 359-7103
Mideastern American Cuisine take out and catering
243 Rt 9W Palisades NY 10964 Khaled Elkady (914)3651320
ELLIS REALTY Richard W Ellis
Licensed Associate Broker
(914) 353-4250 76 H Broadway Nyack NY 10960 Fax (914) 353-4253
Scrumptious Specials Fresh fruit juices and good strong coffee
Pastries low-fat soups salads entrees and veggie options
OPEN 7 DAYS
8AM-6PM Sat Sun ampMon
8AM-8PM Tues thru Fri
Sit by the stream and enjoy a healthy breakfast lunch or dinner
Our back porch is Nyacks best kept secret
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PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
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TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick
FRED amp CANDY BERARDI
pound amp S DCozUt and ltBwukn Skofr
249 FERDON AVENUE
PIERMONT NEW YORK 10968
(914) 359-5604
mtUbigi bull Funtrals Dritd 4 Silk Artmttmatti
Fruit Muktts bull Plants bull Bslloons
CREDIT CARD PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED
3 swzwt Slest orations Kyle AC Sum
imbytm
$14-591-2205 914-358-6348 Z15-86Z-5178
The Environmental Marketplace Patricia Lynn Boone Proprietor
Boondocks Inc 490 Piermont Avenue Piermom New York 10968 (914)365-2221
generaCContracting Carpentry SRpwvatum
CaBinetry HCttcfiett^atRs fine Woodworipound
Lic2amp64950
(914) 359-9647
TAPPAN AUTO SERVICE CENTER FAST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE 1972
USED CAR SALES
VmCE or BRIAN or SAL Voto Splaquociraquotttts
RT 303 at OAK TREE RD TAPPAN NY 10983
MARGARET TAYLER ANDERSON
Independent Broker Selling Palisades Real Estate Since 1951
Well give your listings loving care Blythe Anderson Sue Freil Joe Hyde
286 Rte 9W Palisades NY (914) 359-4225
OFFERS YOU
bull Senior Citizen Discounts bull FREE Monthly Health Screening bull FREE Consultation bull We accept most insurance plans including
EPIC PAID PCS MEDICAID etc bull Ask about transferring your prescriptions
Give us a call or stop by for a Free Price Quote
The Medicine Shoppe 86 Route 303
TappanNY 10983 (914)365-3800
Steve Whiting RPh
OAK TREE RD
T h e Medicine Shoppe
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale
Yes we can print that for you Bring us your copy
your ideas your wish list and we will turn it into a
printed masterpiece
We are pleased to be f v the printers for 10964
MINUTEMAN PRESS of Northvale 260 Livingston Street (Route 303) Northvele New Jersey 07647 Tel (201)767-6504 bull Fa (201)767-6471
NAflgl Were So Much More Than Quick